Former Chester alderman injured in lawnmower rollover

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Former Chester City Council alderman Richard Brueggeman was injured in a lawnmower rollover accident on Tuesday evening.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The Chester Fire Department was paged at 8:04 p.m. to 612 Hancock Street on Chester's southwest side on the report of a tractor that had rolled over on a hillside.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"The lawnmower rolled over on top of him," said Chester Fire Chief Marty Bert. "(Paramedics) thought he had a broken leg or hip or something.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"He started mowing around 6 (p.m.) and was kind of down there in the middle of nowhere on the hillside."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Brueggeman was transported to Memorial Hospital of Chester and later transferred to Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">In other news, the CFD responded to a non-emergency page on Monday afternoon of a boat that had become stranded near Grand Tower, which is in rural Jackson County.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Chester firefighters Tim Crow and Lorin Mott responded with the department's rescue boat.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"There was a 47-foot boat that was stuck on a sandbar in Grand Tower," Bert said. "That's kinda no man's land from the Mississippi River south.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Cape wouldn't come up that far, but there were no other boats in the area."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Bert said the boat's unnamed occupant was stranded for four to five hours before help arrived. The boat was was unstuck from the sandbar and was able to leave the area under its own power.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Chester firefighters received the call at 2:20 p.m.</span>

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