Fire training becomes fatal for Clinch firefighter

Updated: Feb 28, 2008 02:04 PM
WALB News

February 23, 2008

Clinch County -- 48-year-old Joey Turner was attending Module one of the Basic Georgia Fire Fighter training at the Georgia Fire Academy in Maze.

During the course Thursday, he suffered a sudden cardiac arrest.

Turner was transported to the Medical Center in Central Georgia where he died Friday.

Turner's body was sent to undergo an autopsy in Macon.