A newly-married firefighter who was expecting the birth of his first child has tragically passed away while fighting raging bushfires.

28-year-old Samuel McPaul was a volunteer firefighter who risked his life battling the fires in Jingellic, Green Valley, when a firenado suddenly flipped over his truck and caused the crew to become trapped.

While another firefighter was severely burned during the incident, McPaul has sadly suffered lethal injuries.

According to the NSW RFS Commissioner, McPaul has tied the knot with the love of his life and the mother of his unborn child just months before his passing.

“[It’s a] very, very sad day for the NSW Rural Fire Service family locally and across the state,” Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons said as he was holding back his tears.

In a series of tributes paid to the hardworking firefighter, people have expressed that McPaul was a loved and respected member of the community and the Morven Fire Brigade.

Amid Australia’s bushfire crisis, two other firefighters have recently passed away while serving their communities as volunteers.

32-year-old Geoffrey Keaton and 36-year-old Andrew O’Dwyer have tragically died on December 19 after a burning tree fell and struck their truck.

According to the reports, both volunteers of the Horsley Park Rural Fire Service were fathers of young children.

As one local confirmed after the incident, several trucks have driven by on the street where the accident happened.

“Just the timing of it all. Seconds later or seconds earlier and it wouldn’t have happened,” the local said in an interview with Daily Mail Australia after explaining that the sound “scared the life out of him.”

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