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2006 EMS Hero

NAME: Joseph Donald Snow, Paramedic Montgomery County Emergency Medical Services, TN
AGE: 32
DETAILS: Memorial Day will never be the same for emergency workers in Clarksville and Montgomery County.  One of their own died over the holiday weekend after trying to recover two drowning victims.
 

End of Watch: Sunday May 27, 2006

Memorial Day will never be the same for emergency workers in Clarksville and Montgomery County.  One of their own died over the holiday weekend after trying to recover two drowning victims.

Emergency Medical Serviceman Joe Snow died Sunday morning after trying to recover the bodies of two drowned 15 year olds.  Phillip Seifert and Vincent Kurk were swimming in Ringgold Creek Thursday night when they got caught in the current and drowned.  Snow was caught in a swirling underwater current for five minutes.  When rescuers were able to get him out and life flight took him to Vanderbilt, but he died Sunday morning.