Three firefighters were injured Tuesday evening when their fire truck collided with a pickup truck that pulled into its path.
The Stroud Township Fire Department was dispatched to a call of an automatic alarm at a residence in Blue Mountain Lake Estates at 5:35 p.m. The truck, a Pierce Pumper, had just exited the North Fifth Street fire station and was heading north at about 25 miles per hour with its lights and siren activated when a Ford F-150 driven by 37-year-old Patrick Trunzo of Stroudsburg pulled out of Shook Avenue intending to go south on North Fifth Street.
Trunzo stopped in the northbound lane in the path of the pumper and then accelerated into the south lane just as the pumper swerved to avoid the pickup, hitting the Ford and shearing off a utility pole.
