By Maya Lau
The Advocate
BATON ROUGE, La. — A Baton Rouge Fire Department ladder truck responding to a call Wednesday morning was T-boned by a car on Wooddale Boulevard at Florida Boulevard, leaving three firefighters and three residents injured, a fire official said.
The collision at 11:27 a.m. caused the fire truck’s driver to lose consciousness, said department spokesman Curt Monte. But he said the driver regained consciousness by the time emergency personnel transported him to a hospital.
Three occupants of the passenger vehicle — along with two other firefighters who were in the ladder truck — were all taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries, he said.
Baton Rouge Police Department spokesman Sgt. Don Coppola said the fire truck had its lights and sirens on as it traveled northbound on Wooddale Boulevard crossing Florida Boulevard. The passenger vehicle that hit the fire truck was a Toyota Camry, he said.
No citations have been issued and the crash is still under investigation, Coppola said. The eastbound lanes of Florida Boulevard were blocked as of about 12:30 p.m., he said.
Three Baton Rouge firefighters & three civilians injured in morning wreck after a vehicle t-boned BRFD ladder truck: https://t.co/eFUXvflzqr
— Bryn Stole (@BrynStole) August 10, 2016
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