Sussex County firefighter Thomas Berry

Funeral Thursday for Sussex firefighter Thomas Berry

Betsy PriceGovernment, Headlines

The funeral Thursday, Aug. 22, for a Sussex County volunteer firefighter who died in the line of duty is expected to include hundreds of first responders and a long line of emergency vehicles. The procession to honor fallen volunteer firefighter and EMS logistics technician Thomas W. Berry III will assemble to take Berry to answer the traditional final call at …

Thomas Berry Sussex Firefighter

Sussex County mourns death of firefighter at crash site

Betsy PriceCulture, Government, Headlines

A Georgetown man who was a firefighter and Sussex County employee was killed Tuesday afternoon after he stopped on his way back to county offices to help at an accident. Thomas Wilson Berry III, 23, died just before 4:30 p.m. at a vehicle crash on U.S. 9/Lewes-Georgetown Highway. Some reports say he was struck and killed, but others said he …