Kyle R. Wilson was 24 years old and the first Prince William County firefighter to die in the line of duty.
Kyle R. Wilson’s brother Chris Wilson, mother Sue Wilson and sister Kelli Gray look at old photographs of him. Kyle died in a fire in Woodbridge, Va., on April 16, 2007, the same day as the mass shooting at Virginia Tech. By Theresa Vargas Theresa Vargas Local columnist who previously wrote for the local enterprise team about poverty, race and people with disabilities. Email Bio Follow Columnist April 13 at 7:30 AM Something horrible had happened in Virginia.
On the same day that a Virginia Tech student shot and killed 32 people and then himself, another unexpected death occurred 235 miles away in the same state. Gray’s older brother, a 24-year-old Prince William County firefighter named Kyle R. Wilson, stepped into a burning house to make sure no one remained inside. A fire fueled by fierce winds left him trapped.
After the Virginia Tech shooting, I spent many days on the Blacksburg campus, writing about how students and the faculty were coping, thriving and remembering the lost. But on the morning of the shooting, I was standing in front of what remained of the white-paneled house on Marsh Overlook Drive in Woodbridge, trying to learn what I could about the rookie firefighter who had been killed.“He was the best of the best,” Kevin McGee, who was then the assistant fire chief, said at the time.
“I said, ‘You’re out of your mind,’ ” Wilson recalled. “I said, ‘If something happens to you, I’m worthless.’ ” In a few days, on April 16, when most people will think of Virginia Tech, the family will mark the 12th anniversary of Wilson’s death. It has not gotten easier, they said. Sue Wilson has already requested that day off from her job as a secretary in the emergency room. And Gray, who will be traveling with friends, has warned them that she will be “a hot mess.”
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