More apparatus incidents

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (Indiana's NewsCenter) - A Fort Wayne police and fire truck collide as both were responding to an emergency call. Full Story HERE

Is it just me or does it seem that are are entirely too many of these incidents. With all the safety initiatives that the fire service has in place it seems that this should be the exception and not the daily news?

RESPONDING VIRGINIA FIRE APPARATUS CRASH 2 hurt in Chesterfield crash  Full story at FirefighterCloseCalls.Com - Home of the Secret List Chesterfield County E-14, responding to an apartment fire, collided with a car this evening, entrapping and injuring the car's two occupants. The crash victims were taken to a local hospital with non life-threatening injuries, said Chesterfield Capt. Robby Dawson. None of the three firefighters on the truck were injured, he said. The wreck occurred about 1825 when engine 14 from the department's Dutch Gap station was on its way to a reported kitchen fire at Winchester Green Apartments, Dawson said. The rig was heading northbound; it was not immediately clear what direction the car was traveling or how the two vehicles collided. "Typically when we're involved in any kind of a...

TENNESSEE MOTORCYCLES VS FIRE APPARATUS-FF's OK, BIKERS TAKEN BY MEDEVAC Full story at FirefighterCloseCalls.Com - Home of the Secret List Three Fort Campbell soldiers were injured in a collision with a Houston County fire truck at the intersection of Proctor Road and Tenn. 49, according to Tennessee Highway patrol Trooper Stephen Becker. Joshua W. Page, 19, Anthony P. Stanhope, 22, and Catlyn Danick, 21, were all transported to medical facilities,  according to Houston County Volunteer Fire Department Chief and EMA Director David Hardin. Hardin said that the fire truck, driven by 18-year-old Justin C. Smith, and the motorcycles were all travelin...