Crime & Safety
Atlanta Firefighters Hospitalized After Wreck
The firefighters were responding to a call in southeast Atlanta when their truck hit a car and a tree.
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Four Atlanta firefighters are in the hospital on Monday after being injured in a wreck while they were en route to a fire.
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According to WSB-TV, the truck was responding to a fire on Jonesboro Road on Monday morning when it struck a car at Jonesboro and McWilliams roads at about 9:30 a.m. The force of the impact then sent the truck off the road and into a nearby tree. One of the firefighters was trapped inside the truck, WSB-TV said.
Witnesses told WSB-TV that the truck may have been in the wrong lane of traffic after trying to get around a stopped MARTA bus.
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Each of the four firefighters is expected to survive, according to WSB-TV.
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