Buchanan v. Prickett & Son, Inc.

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• holding that the rule does apply to volunteers under assumption-of-the-risk principles
• applying the Fireman’s Rule to a volunteer firefighter and noting that volunteer firefighters “although uncompensated, undertake the same duties as paid [firefighters]”
• “Attempting to distinguish between ‘firefighting’ and ‘rescue’ operations is unacceptable .... [T]he firelighters] who [operate] the hoses or pumps are in fact as much a part of the rescue effort as those who [operate] the ladders or the nets or who carry victims to safety.”
• fireman barred from recovering for undertaking risk which he has “engaged to encounter by virtue of his employment and one which it is his duty to accept ... ”
• \He has suffered additional damages by reason of pain and suffering and time lost from his regular employment as an electrical lineman and a moonlighting job in a feed mill.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).