The vehicle carried two paramedics in the cab; in the rear were a student and a dispatcher doing a ride-along, said Dana Dalbey, the Baytown FD assistant chief in charge of emergency medical services.

The student and dispatcher suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries. The student presented an altered level of consciousness, Dalbey said, so the student and the dispatcher were flown by air ambulance to the trauma center at Houston's Memorial Hermann Hospital.

The ambulance was traveling near the intersection of 19th Street and Eighth Avenue shortly before 1:30 p.m. when the two vehicles collided. It appeared the ambulance hit the SUV’s front-right side. Both vehicles had front-end damage in the crash.

The grant will support the purchase of new equipment for the fire department, which serves Hearne and the surrounding community. This award from the Union Pacific Foundation is representative of the railroad's commitment to supporting first responders in the communities through which it operates, and where its employees and customers live. "These funds are a result of the Foundation's new 'Building Community Investments' program," said Dan Harbeke, Union Pacific Director - Public Affairs. "The program's new giving priorities are workforce development, community spaces, and in this case, safety."

The cost of the city's $9.7-million fire station number two rose last week after construction crews unearthed a variety of items. Those items included old car parts, three headstones, full trees, electrical conduit, 20 feet of water line dating from the 1920s, pots that once held plants, a tractor and other assorted debris.

The findings at the city-owned property at the northeast corner of Richmond Road and Park East Drive created the need to remove the soil and bring in new soil at a spot on the construction site that will eventually become the back office/living quarters half of the new fire station building.