Texas Firefighter Crushed Between Trucks at Station

A Texas firefighter was hospitalized after being crushed between two vehicles at a fire station this morning.

According to KTRK (http://abc13.co/1ua9Vjw), a 23-year-old Little York firefighter was sitting on the back bumper of a fire apparatus when a co-worker drove his pickup truck into the station. The victim was pinned between the bumpers of the vehicles, the report said.

The victim was transported by air to a health facility, but friends and family released word that he has no significant injury and is being released, the report said.

Read more about this accident at http://abc13.co/1ua9Vjw.

HT The Secret List (firefighterclosecalls.com)

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