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3 Orlando firefighters injured when car crashes into fire engine

Officials said a car crashed into a fire truck as they were assisting another crash on SR-408.

Officials said a car crashed into a fire engine as firefighters were assisting in another crash on SR-408.
The driver of the car was taken to Orlando Regional Medical Center as a trauma alert, officials said.
The firefighters sustained non-life-threatening injuries.
In a Facebook post, the Orlando Fire Department wrote: “To understand how this could have resulted in greater loss, OFD's standard operating procedure provides for one of the Engines or Towers responding to the scene on high-speed roadways, to park diagonally in the road to protect the first responders working the incident ahead of the parked apparatus. This safety practice saved many personnel, OFD and OPD, from much greater danger and injury by creating a 20-ton roadblock.
The names of those involved have not been released.