RARITAN TWP. — A firefighter was injured, but apparently not seriously, when a Three Bridges Fire Company truck went off Dory Dilts Road here and crashed into a big tree this morning.

The accident took place around 10:10 a.m. The firefighter, who was driving, was trapped in the truck. Flemington-Raritan Rescue Squad extricated him and he was enroute to Hunterdon Medical Center by ambulance around 11 a.m. Details on the wreck were not immediately available. Some roads were slushy at the time from the snow, sleet and freezing rain that had fallen.

Extensive damage occurred to the front of the truck, which has the designation 33-62.



The accident took place while firefighters from several companies were responding to a reported house fire on Old York Road near Olden Drive in Raritan. It turned out to be not serious, since the firemen not already on the scene were canceled at 10:17 a.m., according to emergency radio reports.

The fire truck accident was one of several accidents on Hunterdon roads Wednesday. A car was reported crashed into a utility pole near 90 Old York Road in the township around 10:25 a.m.

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