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2 Young PA Firefighters Drowned, Third Teen Also Dead

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Two teenage volunteer firefighters who were reported missing after they didn’t show up for a training drill for their small-town department died along with a friend when their SUV slid off a slick road and into an icy western Pennsylvania pond.  The bodies of the three teens were found in their overturned SUV in a frozen pond early Wednesday morning.

Two of the teens, Elijah Lunsford and Sam Bucci, both 18, were members of the Zelienpole Fire Department.  The third teen, 17-year old Trevor Barkley also perished in the crash.  All three were varsity baseball players at the Seneca Valley High School.

Their fellow volunteer firefighters were called to the scene when the accident was discovered along a sparsely-traveled road, and divers recovered the bodies shortly thereafter.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family and friends of each of these three young men, as well as to each of their brothers and sisters at the Zelienpole Fire Department.

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