A Salt Lake City resident outside Thursday evening saw a fire truck slide down a slick Browning Avenue, near 1300 South and 1300 East, and slam into a hydrant. Glen Jefferies said the engine was not speeding, but it still lost control on one of the steeper, slicker parts of Browning Avenue just after midnight. The driver then crashed into a hydrant, which stopped him from running into parked cars farther down the road. Some water burst out of the broken hydrant, but firefighters shut off the water before it froze. Jefferies said it took about two hours to free up the engine and praised the firefighters for potentially saving parked cars and preventing additional damage.
Lessons Learned:
Slow down, chain up, choose route based on conditions
