Fire Truck Involved in Crash in Bel Aire

Kansas Truck Accident

Firefighters respond to calls all the time. On Saturday afternoon, they responded to a call involving two of their own.

Authorities say a Sedgwick County fire truck collided with a car at the intersection of Perryton and Woodlawn in Bel Aire.

Officers say the truck, with its lights and siren on, tried to pass the car just as the car was turning left. The fire truck flipped with both vehicles ending up in a ditch.

"I heard a fire truck going by and looked out the window. About that time I heard "crash," says Anita Ravens, who lives near where the accident happened.

Both firefighters had to be cut from their seatbelts, and because their truck landed upside down, were taken to the hospital with potentially serious injuries.

"Your heart jumps a few beats when you hear emergency or mayday traffic like that and realize that the first unit checks out and says 'we've got a squad on a it's roof sure.' It's somewhat stressful to realize you may have some critical injuries or something to your folks," explains Division Chief Stewart Segraves, Sedgwick County Fire Department.

Four of the five people in the other car were also taken by ambulance, three of them children. But officers say no one was seriously hurt.

They add this only reiterates the need for people to stay out of the way when emergency vehicles need to get through. A lesson now learned for even those not involved.

Ravens adds, "This is what can happen...listen for those trucks."

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