Outside Pinetown Fire-Rescue-EMS, the American flag flies at half-staff as a community mourns the tragic death of one of its own.

Monday, 16-year-old Reid Sasnett died after an accident on the family farm on North Savannah Road. According to officials, his injuries were consistent with being run over by the plow towed behind the tractor he was operating.

Reid was a junior firefighter with Pinetown Volunteer Fire Department.

“I can tell you that he was a model child — he was ‘Yes, sir, No, sir.’ Knew he wanted to be a farmer and was very bright and very knowledgeable of running that farm. He knew he wanted to help his community and joined fire department,” said Washington EMS captain and Pinetown Fire-Rescue-EMS volunteer Doug Bissette.

A sophomore at Pungo Christian Academy, Reid signed up with Pinetown VFD last year and threw himself into the volunteer work, Bissette said. He’d taken Firefighting 1 and 2 classes and was currently taking part in rescue classes — in the first three months of 2015, Reid had already exceeded the required number of hours of training for the entire year.

“He came up there and he was an active member,” Bissette said. “He was full of life. He was just an outgoing guy: he wanted to be a fireman and he wanted to be a farmer. He wanted to help his community and that was important to him.”

Emergency responders were called to the scene of the accident at 12:53 p.m., where Reid had been found in a field with multiple lacerations, according to law enforcement officials. When White Oak EMS paramedics arrived 10 minutes later, he was still conscious, according to the official report. By 1:25 p.m., an East Care Critical Care Transport helicopter had arrived to take the injured young man to Vidant Medical Center in Greenville. Reid, however, was pronounced dead on arrival at Vidant Medical Center.

Major Charlie Rose, with the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office, said there is no investigation of the accident planned.

“Everything that was found was consistent with everything that was reported as a farming accident,” Rose said.

At Pinetown Fire-Rescue-EMS, the flag will fly at half-staff until Reid’s funeral, while the community copes with the loss of a young man with so much going for him, Bissette said.

“It hurts — it hurts the community; it hurts the fire department. He had a lot of potential,” Bissette said. “He was just a good kid.”