Santa Rosa Contractor Fatally Crushed While Removing Wildfire Debris

The wine country wildfires have claimed another victim. This one, a clean-up worker. Truck driver Ezekiel Jackson Sumner Jr. was killed over the weekend, when he was hit by his own truck. It happened at Sonoma County’s central landfill on Mecham Road in Petaluma. Santa Rosa truck driver Cynthia Rogers said, “We all feel so bad.” Rogers heard the news from a fellow truck driver on Monday morning. Sumner, a 60-year-old man from Paradise, in Butte County, ended up pinned under his truck Friday afternoon at the Republic Services Landfill.