Firefighter killed with baby girl in pileup always put ‘family first,’ brother says

The firefighter who died in a horrific 15-car pileup in Alabama alongside his 9-month-old daughter was remembered as “upbeat” and “always put his family first,” loved ones said — while the eight other children who died were from a local foster home.

Cody Fox, 29, who was fire chief at New Hope Volunteer Fire Department in Tennessee, was killed by the impact of the crash Saturday on a wet Interstate 65 about 35 miles south of Montgomery, the Butler County coroner said. The wreck also claimed the lives of eight kids in a van from a youth home for abused or neglected children, authorities said. Their identities have not been released.