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First responders across the prairies offered condolences after a 46-year-old volunteer firefighter was fatally struck by a passing semi while responding to a highway collision near Rosetown.

Darrell James Morrison, 46, died Wednesday morning, Saskatchewan RCMP said in a news release.

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“Heavy hearts are present today, as we express our sincere sympathies to our Brothers and Sisters of the Rosetown Fire Department, who lost one of their own in a Line of Duty Death earlier today,” La Ronge Fire wrote in a Facebook post hours after Morrison’s death.

“We stand with you and by you.”

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Rosetown RCMP, fire crews from Rosetown and Biggar, and EMS staff from Rosetown were called Wednesday morning to a crash between two semi trucks on Highway 4, about 23 kilometres north of Rosetown. No one was injured in that collision.

While first responders were at the scene, Morrison — a volunteer firefighter in Rosetown since January 2015, according to his Facebook page — was hit by a semi truck and suffered fatal injuries.