Editor's Note: This story has been updated with additional details.
One person was killed and four firefighters injured Thursday morning in a crash involving a car and a Louisville Fire & Rescue ladder truck.
WDRB reports that the ladder truck was responding to an emergency with its lights and sirens activated when the collision happened along Algonquin Parkway near McCloskey Avenue about 8:45 a.m.
"Our preliminary investigation, and according to witnesses, stated that the fire truck was going west on Algonquin in an emergency mode," Louisville Metro Police spokesman Dwight Mitchell told WDRB. "Apparently there was a green Mercury that was at the corner of McCloskey and Algonquin, apparently at a stop sign. That vehicle went out into the intersection and collided with the fire apparatus."
Hours after the violent crash, skid marks could be seen on the street where the fire truck ran off the roadway, hit a tree and a brick sign before stopping in front of a bench.
Loved ones gathered and grieved at the scene after the victim was identified as 61-year-old Larry Carter, whom WDRB says had borrowed borrowed the Mercury he was driving from a relative to take a female passenger home. The unidentified woman was taken to a hospital with injuries but is expected to be OK.
Witness Timothy Frierson, who was driving his son to school, told WDRB "it was almost like a bomb going off."
The four firefighters suffered minor injuries and were taken to University Hospital, according to Louisville Fire & Rescue Capt. Sal Melendez.
