Tragedy struck the Paint Creek Joint EMS/Fire District Sunday afternoon, when one of their firefighter/EMT's was killed when a cylinder of compressed air exploded at the station near Rainsboro, in Highland County.
Details of the incident are not completely known at this time, but a spokesperson for the district states the accident involved firefighter/EMT Joe Patterson, who was critically injured at approximately 2:16pm.
Patterson was flown to Kettering Medical Center with critical injuries, but was later pronounced dead.