Six firefighters were injured when their fire truck crashed in Anderson County.
It happened around 6:30pm on Puckett Road near the intersection with Alton Station Road near Lawrenceburg.
The firefighters were headed to an accident when police believe they ran off the road hitting a large tree.
“We heard this loud crash and come out the back door here and seen the fire truck into the tree down here by the house,” who Noal Cotton, who was just sitting down to dinner when the impact of the truck hitting the tree shook his home and others along Puckett Road.
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“They hit it so hard it knocked the top out of it,” said James Goodlett, who lives nearby.
All six firefighters were taken to the hospital. Their conditions are unknown.
“Three of them got out and they cut the guy in the front passenger side out. He was trapped inside so they had to work about an hour to get him out,” said Cotton, who went to help.
Battalion Chief Chris Harrod was on his way to the initial accident when he ran up on the wreck involving his firefighters.
“That’s our worst nightmare, something that’s always on our minds of how we’re going to handle that,” said Battalion Chief Harrod.
He now asks for prayers as his crew recovers.
“They put their lives at risk on every run that they make and this is just another example of things that can happen while we’re responding,’ said Battalion Chief Harrod.
Kentucky State Police continue to investigate the crash.
The battalion chief says the first accident firefighters were responding to was a driver who rear-ended another driver sending a vehicle into a cow pasture. He didn’t know about any injuries because his crew never made it to that accident.
