A volunteer Burke County firefighter was killed after being hit by a car while trying to clear debris from a road in Morganton Sunday night. According to a spokesperson with the Triple Community Fire Department, firefighters were dispatched to a tree that was blocking the eastbound and westbound lanes of Highway 70 East near the Drexel intersection just before midnight. A driver who was traveling eastbound on Highway 70 struck 40-year-old Jason Keith Hensley who was a firefighter with the Triple Community Fire Department, crews say.