So yesterday was a pretty good Sunday. All signs pointed to getting off on time to start my week.....then at a little short of 30 minutes before I'm supposed to head back in I get a call for a vehicle accident involving a fire truck.
I arrive on scene and see the fire truck blocking about two lanes with debris in the road. Apparently Fire was heading to a call lights and sirens when they came up on two vehicles ( a car and a white SUV). The car moved to the right (as you're SUPPOSED to do), while the SUV froze up and stopped. The fire truck went to move into the opposite lanes of traffic to go around the SUV when all of a sudden the SUV crossed the double yellow lines and ran right into the fire truck.
The SUV sustained heavy damage to the driver side and the fire captain even said it looked like the front axle was broken from the way it wasn't really turning around. For whatever reason, the SUV took off at a high rate (or as high a rate as it could) speed and fled the scene. We searched nearby areas for the SUV as it couldn't have gotten to far, but were unsuccessful.
Meanwhile, Fire's Internal Affairs and a battalion chief came out to the scene to conduct their investigation. I had to wait forever for our crime scene technician to come out and take photographs of the city damage to the truck.
If you ever see an emergency vehicle coming up on you remember this: SLOW DOWN AND MOVE TO THE RIGHT. This really is the safest way for us to navigate to important calls.
I ended up getting off work at midnight as opposed to 1030pm...
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