According to Bentley, the three firefighters were on their way to a fire at an apartment complex off Habitat Circle, less than a mile from where the crash happened. Initially, officials said only one of them had to be transported, but later clarified that all three were taken to the hospital.   

Bentley identified the firefighters as Capt. Terance Wilkes, Matthew Bradshaw and Marq Morgan. 

Wilkes, who has been with the department for 18 years, and Bradshaw, who has been there for two, are both still in the hospital recovering. Morgan was treated and released.

 

He said Springfield firefighters spotted her asleep behind the wheel on Chestnut Street. When firefighters knocked on her car window, the woman woke up startled and gunned the engine.

She smashed into a fire engine, and two unoccupied parked cars before turning from Chestnut onto Pearl Street. On Pearl, she shot past a police cruiser, went off the road and took out multiple light poles before slamming into 82-86 Pearl St., an apartment at Spring and Pearl.

The truck is outfitted with technology that the department has never had including a mobile data terminal to give firefighters "instant information at their fingertips."  

The fire engine was ordered last October by the Bellmead City Council at a cost of just more than $600,000.