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July 25, 2016

Former Hilltop fire chief struck by tanker, killed

CYCLONE — Don Ishman, the former chief of the Hilltop Volunteer Fire Department, was killed Saturday afternoon when he was accidentally struck by a tanker apparatus at the firehall on

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