By Rick Hurd
Contra Costa Times
CONCORD, Calif. — One person was hospitalized with minor injuries Wednesday after a vehicle went over an embankment, an accident that may also have inadvertently prevented the spread of a grass fire that occurred around the same time a mile away.
The vehicle went off an embankment just before 3:30 p.m. on Arnold Industrial Way, a road that runs parallel to Highway 4, a dispatcher from the Contra Costa Fire Protection District confirmed. A rescue team consisting of firefighters and paramedics was dispatched to the scene. While they were en route, other callers reported a grass fire about a mile away from the crash site, the dispatcher said.
The fire crew was able to divert from the crash response, while the paramedics went on to pull the lone driver from the vehicle. The dispatcher could not confirm whether the wrecked vehicle ended up in a creek that runs beneath Arnold Industrial Way.
Fire crews extinguished the grass fire within a few minutes, the dispatcher said. No damage was done to any property, and nobody was injured.
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