Prepare collides with hearth truck in Florida. Police say 3 firefighters and a number of other passengers harm

The crash occurred at 10:45 a.m. in crowded downtown Delray Seashore, a number of information retailers reported. The Brightline practice was stopped on the tracks, its entrance destroyed, a few block away from the Delray Seashore Hearth Rescue truck, its ladder ripped off and strewn within the grass a number of yards away, The Solar-Sentinel reported.

The Delray Seashore Hearth Rescue stated in a social media put up that three Delray Seashore firefighters have been in secure situation at a hospital. Palm Seashore County Hearth Rescue took 12 folks from the practice to the hospital with minor accidents.

Emmanuel Amaral rushed to the scene on his golf cart after listening to a loud crash and screeching practice brakes from the place he was having breakfast a few blocks away. He noticed firefighters climbing out of the window of their broken truck and pulling injured colleagues away from the tracks. One among their helmets got here to relaxation a number of hundred toes away from the crash.

“The entrance of that practice is totally smashed, and there was even among the components to the fireplace truck caught within the entrance of the practice, but it surely break up the automobile proper in half. It break up the fireplace truck proper in half, and the particles was in every single place,” Amaral stated.

Brightline officers didn’t instantly touch upon the crash.

A spokesperson for the Nationwide Transportation Security Board stated it was nonetheless gathering details about the crash and had not determined but whether or not it would examine.

The NTSB is already investigating two crashes involving Brightline’s high-speed trains that killed three folks early this 12 months on the similar crossing alongside the railroad’s route between Miami and Orlando.

Greater than 100 folks have died after being hit by trains since Brightline started operations in July 2017 — giving the railroad the worst dying fee within the nation. However most of these deaths have been both suicides, pedestrians who tried to run throughout the tracks forward of a practice or drivers who went round crossing gates as a substitute of ready for a practice to cross. Brightline has not been discovered to be at fault in these earlier deaths.

Railroad security has been a priority since a Norfolk Southern practice derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, in February 2023, spilling poisonous chemical substances that caught hearth. Regulators urged the business to enhance security and members of Congress proposed a package deal of reforms, however railroads haven’t made many main adjustments to their operations and the invoice has stalled.

Earlier this month the 2 operators of a Union Pacific practice have been killed after it collided with a semitrailer truck that was blocking a crossing within the small West Texas city of Pecos. Three different folks have been injured, and the native Chamber of Commerce constructing was broken.

Related Press writers Josh Funk in Omaha, Nebraska, Chevel Johnson in New Orleans and Julie Walker in New York contributed.

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