The city of Redding voted to apply for a $25 million bond to make improvements to some fire stations, reports actionnewsnow.com.

The funds would also add a new Station 9 near the Shasta View Drive intersection east of Redding, the report says.

Officials say the next step is an assessment from all stations to figure out renovation costs. The Redding Fire Department says it will give appraisals at the March 15 city council meeting.

Five people were taken to a MN hospital after a semi crashed into a Blue Earth fire apparatus and a passenger vehicle early Sunday morning on Interstate 90.

The driver of the semi, a 41-year-old Solomon Pio Sagot, was traveling east in Jo Daviess Township, Faribault County, at 2:17 a.m. with passenger 24-year-old Kristen Kaye Eaglestar, State Patrol says.

Around the 117-mile post, on snowy and icy roads, the semi crashed into the two vehicles: the fire apparatus and a 2019 Honda Van, driven by 29-year-old Adam Joseph Beckett.

The driver of the fire truck, 46-year-old Corey Bruce Survis; all three occupants of the van; and Sagot were all taken to the hospital.

Alcohol is not believed to be a factor in the crash.

Two St. John’s Regional Fire Department firefighters were injured after their rescue apparatus went off the road, reports Saltwire.

The accident, which also cracked a utility pole, happened around 6:45 p.m. on Beaumont Hamel Way as the department was responding to a vehicle crash, the report says.

Freezing rain had been falling for a few hours prior, so the unsalted roads were slippery—as evidenced by the original accident being a car that skidded off the road in the same area, according to the report.

After their crash, the injured firefighters contacted the trailing apparatus and warned them not to travel down the hill; they then trekked to a waiting ambulance atop the hill, the report notes, and were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

There’s no word as to the extent of the original crash which brought the firefighters.

Last week, FA reported that a Detroit (MI) fire apparatus was hit by a car while responding to a call and, as a result, three firefighters were sent to the hospital.

Well, now a Detroit firefighter says there is concern for the safety of the city’s fire apparatus, according to FOX. The firefighter, who asked to proceed with an undisclosed identity, adds that many firefighters in the city are concerned, too.

The truck’s front and side airbags failed to deploy in Thursday’s accident, which also sent a civilian to the hospital. The firefighters suffered minor injuries, and the Detroit Fire Department says everyone has been treated and released, according to the report.

The apparatus in the accident was a 2015 model, and department officials say that, prior to the accident, there was never an issue with airbags.

One crash Monday night led to another accident that sent a Calgary firefighter to the hospital, reports CTV News.

A car drove into a ditch due to icy conditions in northeast Calgary at Stoney Trail and Country Hills Blvd. N.E. at 7:56 p.m., the report says.

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Calgary first responders arrived three minutes later to assist, but a semi hit the parked apparatus, according to the report.

One firefighter was taken to the hospital in non-life-threatening condition, though there was no word as to the condition of the driver of the vehicle.