The crash occurred when an Orange County Fire Authority truck swerved to miss a ladder in the road, causing it to flip, reports say.

Eight firefighters were hurt when a fire truck crashed on a freeway near Irvine, California, on Thursday night, authorities said. The Orange County Fire Authority truck overturned on State Route 241 at about 6:50 p.

The firefighters had just finished a 12-hour shift fighting the Airport fire, which has charred thousands of acres of wildland in Orange and Riverside counties over the last several days, when the