Clark County fire truck overturns while responding to crash

A Clark County Fire Department dense rescue portion rolled implicit connected a slick 215 Beltway aboriginal Friday, causing insignificant injuries to 3 unit members.

Clark County Deputy Fire Chief Warren Whitney said astatine 5:35 a.m., the firefighters were dispatched to a reported rollover clang with a idiosyncratic trapped astatine Interstate 15 and the Beltway. The section sent an engine, the dense rescue portion and an further rescue motortruck to the clang scene.

“While responding to the rescue, the dense rescue portion rolled over,” Whitney said successful an email quality release.

Three occurrence section employees suffered insignificant injuries successful the clang successful the eastbound Beltway lanes adjacent the Interstate 15 on-ramp. They were each wearing their information restraints and were capable to extricate themselves from the motortruck connected their own, Whitney said.

It was not instantly wide if the upwind contributed to the crash, but determination were aggregate fender benders connected the Beltway successful the country of Decatur Boulevard arsenic rain and beardown winds swept done the area Friday morning.

Whitney said the effect to the archetypal conveyance clang that firefighters were headed to erstwhile the motortruck overturned was carried retired by different firefighters without hold and a pistillate was transported to a section infirmary with insignificant injuries.

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