8 California firefighters rushed to hospital after fire truck flips on freeway

• Eight California firefighters were injured successful a terrible road clang erstwhile their motortruck swerved to debar a ladder successful the road. The occurrence motortruck deed a defender obstruction and flipped.
• Chief Brian Fennessy of the Orange County Fire Authority said the motortruck overturned connected California State Route 241.
• The conveyance was transporting a crushed unit aft a 12-hour displacement warring a immense wildfire successful Orange County called the Airport Fire.

Eight firefighters were injured Thursday successful a terrible road crash involving a occurrence truck successful Southern California, authorities said.

Chief Brian Fennessy of the Orange County Fire Authority said the motortruck overturned connected the California State Route 241 conscionable northbound of Portola Hills.

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Eight firefighters were injured successful a terrible clang erstwhile their motortruck swerved to debar a ladder successful the road. (OC Hawk)

The conveyance was transporting a crushed unit aft a 12-hour displacement warring a monolithic wildfire in Orange County called the Airport Fire. A ladder successful the roadworthy caused the motortruck to swerve, onslaught a defender obstruction and overturn, Fennessy said.

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At slightest 1 firefighter was flown by chopper with others transported by ambulance to hospitals.

"All of our crews that were progressive are going done a ceremonial captious incidental accent debriefing astatine our office close now," Fennessy said. "You tin lone ideate however traumatic it is for their member and sister firefighter to spot them injured similar that connected the freeway."