A firefighter dies while putting out a fire due to arson In the small town of Lyndonville, Vermont, the evening of Friday, September 4, 1998, brought with it a devastating event that would leave a lasting scar on the community. Eugene McDonough, a dedicated 54-year-old Caucasian male firefighter with the St. Johnsbury Fire Department, responded to a blaze at the expansive PMI Lumber Transfer warehouse, a building filled with pulp paper that fueled the inferno. The fire, it would later be determined, was no accident but an act of arson, turning a dange
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