California firefighters remain hospitalized after truck flips over on freeway

Eight firefighters were injured – six critically – aft their occurrence motortruck rolled implicit and crashed connected a California freeway arsenic they were returning from a displacement battling a devastating wildfire.

The radical of firefighters were returning to the presumption aft battling the exhaustive 23,000 Airport Fire during a 12-hour shift, erstwhile the motortruck unexpectedly overturned connected an Irvine, California, freeway astir 6:50 p.m. section clip Thursday. 

The clang near 8 radical hurt, 1 of them needing to beryllium airlifted retired of the scene. 

Six of the 8 clang victims were critically injured and taken to section trauma centers.

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Photos and videos from the country showed the devastated occurrence motortruck connected it's broadside aft the crash.

Authorities did not specify what led to the accident, but it remains nether investigation.

Six of the 8 clang victims were critically injured and taken to section trauma centers. (OC HAWK)

Orange County Fire Authority Chief Brian Fennessy said successful a property league connected Thursday nighttime that the conveyance "did swerve for immoderate [reason] and did rotation respective times. What caused that, again, I person immoderate thoughts, but I don't person immoderate factual information."

During a property league connected Friday morning, Fennessy provided an update connected the injured firefighters, saying that they had a "long road" of betterment ahead of them.

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"We inquire that you commune for our firefighters and their families," Fennessy said. "This is the opening of a agelong roadworthy for galore of those firefighters and our occurrence departments."

Orange County Fire Authority Chief Brian Fennessy says the origin of Thursday night's clang that injured 8 firefighters remains nether investigation.  (KTTV)

Fennessy said Friday greeting that the six firefighters injured successful the clang remained hospitalized successful conditions ranging from "stable to critical." 

He said "many of the injured are going to beryllium hospitalized for rather a while," but helium did not supply specifics astir the injuries. Two different firefighters injured successful the clang were treated and released connected Thursday evening.

"Our crews, arsenic you tin imagine, are devastated," Fennessey said. "As you tin ideate however traumatic it would beryllium to spot your chap firefighters that injured successful the mediate of the freeway."

The clang happened successful the Portola Springs area, which is 10 miles eastbound of Irvine, Calif., connected Thursday. (OC HAWK)

The California occurrence chief said that the assemblage was hurting aft the incident, but that helium was assured that they would "rally astir each other."

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"This is devastating for me, personally, devastating for everybody successful the occurrence work present successful Orange County," Fennessey said. "We're heartbroken, we're devastated, but there's nary uncertainty successful my caput that the crews, firefighters, our nonrecreational unit — everybody progressive are going to rally astir each other, and we're going to beryllium stronger due to the fact that of it."