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Asst. Fire Chief Killed Crossing Street; 2nd Firefighter's Death In 7 Days

Fewer than eight hours after the Connecticut firefighting community buried Robert Sharkevich Sr., another senior firefighter was killed in Fairfield County, officials said. 

Botsford Asst. Fire Chief Peter Blomberg was killed walking to a fire commission meeting Monday evening, Oct. 28. The department turned his locker into a shrine. 

Botsford Asst. Fire Chief Peter Blomberg was killed walking to a fire commission meeting Monday evening, Oct. 28. The department turned his locker into a shrine. 

Photo Credit: Botsford Fire Department

Peter Blomberg, age 72, was crossing Route 6 near Dayton Street in Newtown when a truck crashed into him around 6:15 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 29, authorities said. 

Blomberg served as the assistant fire chief of the Botsford Fire Department and was walking to a fire commission meeting In Newtown when he was hit, police said. Paramedics rushed him to Danbury Hospital, but doctors could not save Blomberg's life. 

The driver of the Toyota Tacoma that crashed into him remained at the scene, authorities said. The wreck remains under investigation. 

Fire departments across the state posted condolences.

Blomberg's death is another gut punch for the Connecticut firefighting community. Robert Sharkevich Sr., a Wethersfield and former Hartford firefighter, was buried on Monday. 

Sharkevich died on Tuesday, Oct. 22, when a UTV he was on toppled over and landed on him in Meriden as he and others tried to battle back brush fire flames that have now burned more than 130 acres of Lamentation Mountain in Berlin. 

Firefighters held a procession on Monday to his funeral and then to his grave site. They couldn't have known hours later they would be planning another one. 

Newtown Police closed the area around the crash site at Church Hill Road near Dayton for hours as they cleaned, cleared, and investigated the scene.

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