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One person was hurt and several were left without power Tuesday morning when a truck hit the side of Hurst (TX) fire station 1, reports fox4news.com.

The accident happened just before 11 a.m. near the intersection of Precinct Line Road and Cannon Drive, the report says.

Police officials say the driver of a utility truck suffered a medical emergency, which led to the crash.

The driver was the only reported injury; he was taken to the hospital, but the severity of his injuries is unclear. Several utility poles were knocked down, according to the report.

The station was built in 1980 and remodeled in 2003; it contains eight bedrooms, a six-truck apparatus bay, kitchen, training tower, and also houses the fire administration offices. Engine 201, Medic 211, and BC 205 are the primary responding units out of this station.

A section of a wall collapsed in Lincoln County just feet away from where firefighters were battling an early morning blaze Tuesday. The Winfield-Foley Fire Department responded to the house fire around 7 a.m. in the 500 block of Highway Y. The fire caused the front stone veneer wall to collapse and nearly strike one of the firefighters.
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At least 13 people, including children, died as a quick-moving fire tore through a crowded Philadelphia rowhome converted into two apartments owned by the city's public housing authority in the Fairmount neighborhood early Wednesday. “This is without a doubt one of the most tragic days in our city’s history, the loss of so many people in such a tragic way,” Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney said with tears in his eyes.
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