WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- A D.C. fire truck hit another car on the way to an apartment fire early Sunday in Southeast, D.C.
The fire truck collided with a car at MLK and Malcolm X Street in Southeast.
Firefighters were on their way to fight a serious fire in Southwest, D.C.
The fire broke out overnight at a three-story apartment building on Ivanhoe Street SW.
Carlotta Logan said she saw a grandmother and her teenage daughter hanging out of the window at the apartment building in the 100 block of Ivanhoe Street in Southwest.
"She was just saying help me, help me. She was scared because she was hanging out the window," said Logan.
Firefighters broke the locked glass door to gain access to the building while firefighters rescued the woman from the second floor. Firefighters tossed chairs and tables out the window to help control the fire.
Before firefighters arrived to a locked door and flames shooting from the second and third floors, firefighters crashed into a car on the way here.
D.C. fire said the driver of a silver Ford Taurus pulled out in front of them two miles from the fire at MLK and Malcom X Avenues.
The car was crushed and the fire truck received minor damage to the front bumper.
A rescue squad had to cut the people out of the car. Eight people in all had to be transported including four firefighters.
Another fire engine had to be called to respond to the apartment fire.
All the injuries in the car accident had non-life threatening injuries, including the person transport from the apartment fire
