A firefighter was injured Sunday when his 3,000-gallon tanker truck crashed while he was driving it back to the station in South Berwick, Maine, after being called off a fire incident.
A report on seacoastonline.com (http://bit.ly/UQMFtQ) said firefighter Adam Leach, 31, had driven the vehicle to the scene of a chimney fire when he was called off from responding to the fire, according to Fire Chief George Gorman.
Leach suffered nonlife-threatening injuries in the crash. The truck, which the town purchased new for $150,000 around 12 years ago, was destroyed. The firefighter was transported to a hospital in New Hampshire and is undergoing an evaluation to determine if a medical condition caused the crash.
Read more details about the incident athttp://bit.ly/UQMFtQ.
This crash represents yet another recent instance of an American firefighter injured in a tanker truck accident. Last week aChubbuck (TX) Fire Departmentwater tanker tipped while traveling to a mobile home fire. In September, aBoone County (WV) firefighterwas critically injured when he got into an accident with the water tanker truck he was driving, while earlier this year a young firefighter with theGore (VA) Volunteer Fire and Rescue Companydied after falling from the tailboard of a fire department tanker.
