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Fire Captain Rushes to Train Collision Site to Find Wife, Three Children Killed

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Fire Department Capt. Steve Roe rushed to the site of a car-train collision Wednesday only to find that his wife and three children had died in the crash.

The only survivor in the car was Roe's 11-year-old son Ethan, said Culver police chief Lee Farrester. He was hospitalized in serious condition with lacerations and fractures.

"Capt. Roe got out of the rescue rig and realized it was his family, it was his whole family," said Farrester.

Roe's wife Sandy and three children - Jason, 15, Tina, 13, and 7-year-old Devon - were pronounced dead at the scene.

The Roes were driving to school when their car slid on an icy mountain road into an empty Burlington Northern freight train around 7:25 a.m., Farrester said.

"The witness said she started braking about halfway down the hill and kept pumping the brakes, but she couldn't stop in time," Farrester said.

-- Anonymous, December 05, 2001

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How very very sad...I am sending prayers for this man and son that is left...How Horrid..and right close to Christmas!

-- Anonymous, December 05, 2001