Fire truck flips over on SoCal freeway, multiple victims air-lifted to hospital

IRVINE, California - An Orange County Fire Authority truck carrying firefighters who were on their way back from battling the 23,000-acre Airport Fire overturned on an Irvine freeway Thursday night, leaving eight firefighters injured.
The call came in just before 7 p.m. Thursday on State Route 241 near the Tomato Springs Toll Plaza. The crew members inside the flipped-over fire truck had just finished a 12-hour shift from responding to the Airport Fire, according to OCFA during a Sept. 19 press conference update.
Firefighters critically hurt in Irvine tollway crash
Eight members of an Orange County Fire Authority hand crew injured -- six critically -- in a solo-vehicle crash of their transport truck on the northbound Foothill (241) Toll Road in Irvine are recovering Friday.
The crash left eight people hurt, one of them needing to be airlifted out of the scene. Six of the eight crash victims were critically injured and taken to local trauma centers.
Three firefighters were rushed to Providence Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo. Two others were transported to the OC Global Medical Center in Santa Ana and one person was taken to UC Irvine Medical Center in Orange. In addition, two of the eight patients were taken in stable condition to Hoag Hospital in Irvine.
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