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A crash that helped Morris decide to form a rescue squad.
An early Morris Emergency Squad member, Gary Fisher, told me that the crash detailed below in a front page story in the September 14, 1961 edition of the Otsego Farmer and Republican and in the attached PDF did a lot to get people started on the road to the formation of an emergency squad.
I located the article on the Fulton History website which has nearly 22 million pages of upstate NY newspapers scanned and searchable.
SCHOOL BUS TRUCK
CRASH
KILLS PUPIL
Vehicles Collide in
Fog Near Village
of Morris
A seven-year-old Morris Central
School first grader was fatally injured
and four other students hurt seriously
when a school bus and a loaded beer
truck collided Friday - morning- on
Route 23, three miles west of Morris.
read more and see the whole newspaper page in the link below.
