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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Officers from the California National Guard gathered for a tiny memorial successful Tollhouse Monday, honoring 1 of their ain who was killed implicit the weekend.
Officials recovered 27-year-old National Guard Specialist David Solomon dormant astatine 9:05 a.m. Sunday.
“We're a tiny assemblage up determination successful Prather and Auburn. So he's going to beryllium missed and we're precise atrocious for the loss,” CHP Investigating Officer John Marsh said.
Marsh says Solomon was expected to study astatine the Tollhouse CalFire presumption astatine 8 a.m. Sunday, but ne'er showed up.
“His coworkers went to spell find him and they located his vehicle,” Marsh said.
Solomon was from Clovis but was serving connected Joint Task Force Rattlesnake, tasked with helping CalFire combat wildfires.
Crews recovered his Lexus sedan flipped implicit successful a ditch connected Tollhouse Road, eastbound of Van Fleet Road.
A adjacent chopper came to propulsion him out, but officials accidental helium was already dead.
The California National Guard sent a connection connected Monday.
“This nonaccomplishment is felt profoundly crossed the Cal Guard and CAL FIRE community. His committedness to protecting Californians and supporting his teammates reflected the champion of our values. Our thoughts are with his family, loved ones, and the Guardsmen and CAL FIRE enactment of the Fresno-based Toll House unit helium near behind.”
Officials accidental Solomon leaves down galore loved ones, including his wife.
“We privation to beryllium capable to springiness them arsenic galore answers arsenic we tin to the questions that they have,” Marsh said.
He says determination are nary signs of intoxicant oregon cause use, but, due to the fact that it happened successful a distant area, officials volition person a hard clip identifying what led to the crash.
He says determination are nary postulation cameras, and nary witnesses person travel forward.
