An Indiana firefighter was injured in a rollover crash involving an apparatus while responding to a call early Tuesday.
The accident happened at about 6:15 a.m. at a Ripley County intersection as a Napoleon Fire Department tanker was headed to a structure fire, WSCH-FM reports. That's when the lights from an oncoming Marion Township Fire Department apparatus obscured the Napoleon firefighter's vision and caused him to drive off the road.
The firefighter was taken to the hospital with minor injuries and eventually released. The Napoleon tanker suffered significant damage in the rollover crash, the department stated in an online update.
Napoleon firefighters responded with Marion Township (Millhousen) Fire Department overnight to a structure fire near the...
Posted by Napoleon Volunteer Fire Department - Napoleon, IN on Tuesday, January 19, 2021
It's not clear if the Marion Township apparatus was damaged in the incident.