A Cedarville Twp. fire tanker flipped onto its side while responding to a house fire in Greene County on Thursday morning.
The house, which had been struck by lightning, is about a half mile down the road. It turns out the home is fine. There was no fire, just smoke when the breakers kicked.
However, not everything was fine with the responders.
A Cedarville firefighter ran into trouble when the rain became so heavy he couldn’t see in front of the hood of the tanker he was driving. As he began to apply the brakes, the truck drifted to the right and went off the road into a ditch.
The firefighter is a 13-year veteran and considered one of the department’s best drivers.
Cedarville Twp. Fire Chief Scott Baldin said, “He felt it going off the side of the road, visibility was terrible, and once he knew it was in the ditch. He was going to try to drive it into the cornfield, normally if you try and pull it back up on the highway it rolls over, almost had it stopped, and he said it was like slow motion and it kind of laid right over on its side.”
The firefighter was not injured. He was wearing his seatbelt.
