Friends and family will say goodbye to a local firefighter who was killed earlier this week.
Funeral services will be held Friday for Jason Hensley in Burke County. The 40-year-old firefighter was hit and killed by a car Sunday night while trying to clear debris from the roadway following severe storms.
The funeral will begin at 11 a.m. at the First Baptist Church of Drexel, 200 South Main Street in Drexel, NC.
According to the Triple Community Fire Department, they received a call for service regarding a tree blocking part of Highway 70 near the Drexel intersection around 11:53 p.m. Sunday.
Hensley responded to the scene with an apparatus and another in his personal vehicle.
"It's sad to see a good, good man go," said Burke County Fire Marshal Michael Willis.