8 California firefighters suffer major injuries in crash returning from Airport fire

8 California firefighters suffer major injuries in crash returning from Airport fire

Eight Southern California firefighters were injured, some critically, in a rollover crash on a freeway Thursday night while returning to the station after battling a wildfire. The Orange County Fire Authority responded to the single-vehicle wreck on State Route 241 near the Tomato Springs Toll Plaza in Irvine just before 7 p.m. Thursday. The department's hand crew members inside the overturned fire truck had just completed a 12-hour shift battling the 23,000-acre Airport Fire, according to Fire Chief Brian Fennessy.