The Todd County Rescue Squad celebrated its 50th anniversary over the weekend. During Friday’s Todd County Fiscal Court meeting, magistrates approved a resolution that was presented to the organization to honor the milestone. Judge Executive Todd Mansfield said that Todd County Rescue Squad is a huge part of the community.
click to download audioThe need for the all-volunteer organization was noticed after a deadly plane crash in Todd County on November 17, 1972. Ten passengers from Richmond and the pilot from Elizabethtown were killed when the plane crashed about 10 miles northwest of Elkton.
According to the original report from United Press International, the plane had been chartered by a group of football fans from Richmond, who had attended the Class A playoff game earlier that evening between Richmond Madison and Trigg County High School. The game was actually played at Hopkinsville due to field conditions. The plane had taken off from the Hopkinsville airport a short time before the crash, but crashed on the farm of Richard Simons, near Fairview.
