A Birthday Turned Into Heartbreak
On what should have been a day of celebration, March 5, 2023, 35-year-old William Pettry—a firefighter with the Coal River Volunteer Fire Department in Raleigh County, West Virginia—experienced the unimaginable. Responding to a head-on collision on Coal River Road in Arnett, he discovered that the victims were his own wife, Sara Pettry, and his three-year-old daughter, Brooklyn.