Nurre family fundraiser nears goal

A fundraiser for Olney City Council candidate and first responder Steven Nurre has nearly reached its $20,000 goal two weeks after Mr. Nurre, his daughter and her fiance were severely injured in a massive collision near Springtown.

Mr. Nurre’s family and friends started a Go-FundMe fundraiser after the Oct. 7 accident.

The fundraiser has netted nearly $13,000 to help Mr. Nurre’s wife, Brenda, stay near the Metroplex-area hospitals where her husband and future son-in-law are recuperating.

Mr. Nurre, his 21-year-old daughter Emberly Nurre and Emberly’s fiance Fenn Millea, 25, were all seriously injured in a pre-dawn collision between Mr. Nurre’s 2012 GMC pickup truck and an asphalt paver that had been unloaded and was blocking State Highway 199, Mrs. Nurre said.

Emberly Nurre was driving her father to the Dallas-Ft. Worth International Airport when the accident occurred, Mrs. Nurre said.

Mr. Nurre, 54, was on his way to North Carolina to help with hurricane remediation as a part of Team Rubicon, a veteran- led humanitarian crisis response organization, when the accident occurred on a blind curve near the Poolville cutoff, she said.

The Nurres and Mr. Millea were all wearing seat belts, a fact that emergency workers said caused serious internal injuries but also saved their lives, she said. Mr. Nurre and Mr. Millea had to be rescued from the vehicle by the jaws of life, and Emberly Nurre was airlifted to a hospital.

All three had surgeries to stabilize broken bones and internal injuries, and Mr. Nurre and Mr. Millea face more surgeries and lengthy rehabilitation when they are released.