Update:
Firefighter Justin Dunn was killed in a single vehicle accident on Sunday morning. We received reports early from Firefighter Nation and have continued to follow the coverage on local news sites. According to WDBJ7, the wreck happened on Route 615, just east of Route 646 near Bastian. Please follow the links below for more information.
Firefighter Justin Dunn, known by his friends as Judd, was a member of the Bland County Volunteer Fire Department and the Bland County Rescue Squad. His father is the Chief of the Bland County Fire Department.
View Justin’s Firefighter Nation Page here where members are already putting condolences. View the story on Firefighter Nation here.
Justin’s Facebook Page is here
We will add more information as we recieve it. If you have any info or links please let us know. Feel free to leave condolences on Justin’s Facebook Page, Firefighter Nation Page, or here as a comment.
Earlier reports of this possibly being a LODD have not been confirmed at this time.
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LODD should be confirmed before going there…
2:15 AM in private vehicle…
As a friend of the deceased and a firefighter in Southwest Va may I say that Bob O, for you belittleing this matter is BS. LODD or not I believe that we should remember him as a firefighter and a rescue squad member. LODD status can always be changed. So I guess what I am saying, keep your negative attitude out of it and let us grieve for our friend.
I was not belittling the death, the headline and text has changed repeatably.
At first it was made to appear as a LODD which is much different.
It gets everybody across the country's attention, remember him as you may but a LODD deserves special recognition and you just can not make those up! They should be confirmed as such not made up!
I can find nothing anywhere to suggest this was a LODD, nor can I find the “Earlier reports” cited.
And No you should not call every FF death a LODD and change later….
My very sincere condolences to family, friends and coworkers…It is still a tragedy and the young man looks so much like my 20 year old FF/EMT son. It was a strike close to home for me…
In defense of Bob O, I understand his sentiments. In the beginning, we reported that it MIGHT be an LODD. That is from the reports we had gotten. We reported on the reports and at the time there had not been anything in the mainstream media. Instead of posting several posts on this incident, we merely changed the original post as new information was received. We were not trying to sway the report one way or another, nor were we trying to get the incident any more interest by doing so. As of this point, we still have not any confirmation on whether he was responding, although we have had newer “reports” that it was not the case.
The fact remains that one of Virginia's Bravest is gone and we are trying to do our part in respecting him as a Firefighter as well as disseminate the information to other firefighters in Virginia and across the Nation.
Thanks for your understanding.
Thank you for clearing the story up Firefleitz, and to Bob O sorry for getting on your case, I just recently met Justin this past year on a visit to his firehouse, and found that we were actually related. I was out of line and it hit close to me personally, so I took my frustrations out online. Sorry