Firefighter charged with driving fire truck drunk

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A Loudoun County volunteer firefighter is facing drunken-driving charges after taking his company’s truck on a joy ride. The sheriff’s office said Sean Richard Swanson, 27, a volunteer at a Hamilton fire company, was arrested after taking a fire truck out late Friday night. The sheriff’s office says four other volunteers in the county’s fire and rescue system were also in the truck at the time.

A Loudoun County deputy, who was traveling in the opposite direction, had to swerve his car into a ditch in order to avoid a head-on collision with the truck, law enforcement officials said.

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