FIRE VEHICLE STRUCK EN ROUTE TO BLAZE.Byline: - Daily News A Los Angeles Fire Department The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), also known as the Los Angeles City Fire Department to distinguish it from the Los Angeles County Fire Department. It is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the city of Los Angeles. truck was hit at about 12:15 p.m. Sunday Sunday: see Sabbath; week. by a car as it passed through the intersection intersection /in·ter·sec·tion/ (-sek´shun) a site at which one structure crosses another. intersection a site at which one structure crosses another. of Glenoaks Boulevard and Vaughn Vaughn may refer to:
The collision broke the rear axle axle Pin or shaft on or with which wheels revolve; with fixed wheels, one of the basic simple machines for amplifying force. Combined with the wheel, in its earliest form it was probably used for raising weights or water buckets from wells. of the truck, a hazardous materials response unit that was traveling to a house fire. The driver of the truck lost control and it slammed into an idling car. The driver whose vehicle struck the firetruck was transported to a hospital with neck and back pain, three occupants of the other car were taken to the hospital for minor to moderate injuries and a firefighter was treated for lower back pain, said Brian Humphrey, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Fire Department. None of the injuries were was threatening. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Authorities tend to victims of a collision that occurred at Glenoaks Boulevard and Vaughn Street in Pacoima on Sunday, when a firetruck was struck by a car while responding to a house fire. Mike Meadows/Special to the Daily News |
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