A Palo Alto Fire Department engine suffered major damage in a fatal accident with a box truck, reports CBS San Francisco.

The fire engine was tending to a solo vehicle crash when a driver of a white box truck carrying a load of baked goods struck the fire engine on the left rear portion of vehicle. The fully loaded engine spun counterclockwise upon impact.

The crew immediately went to help the driver. It took them nearly 30 minutes to cut away the wreckage. The driver later died at the hospital. The man’s identity has not yet been released.

The damaged $600,000 fire engine was assigned to Station 4. To replace it, Station 4 will have to pull an older truck out of the reserve backup fleet.

A woman riding a moped crashed into a ditch when San Juan Island Fire and Rescue’s Engine 31 Department passed her on a blind hill, reports San Juan Islander.

The county sheriff reports that the fire engine crew did not stop nor report the accident.

The fire engine was responding to a medial call. The fire department has been sending fire engines on aid calls for the past 18 months.

The fire engine came up on two mopeds and one scoot car on the road. The engine crossed the double yellow line, went into the oncoming lane in an area that had limited to no visibility.

An EMS rig stopped and asked the woman if she needed aid. She said she didn’t but would need someone to retrieve the damaged moped.

Charlotte County (FL) Fire and EMS is getting a new fire station and five are being rebuilt with some of the funds raised from a 1 percent local sales tax, according to a report published by NBC 2.

According to the television station, all six projects will cost millions to complete and three will be funded by the sales tax and the other three projects will be funded with impact fees, which is money paid by developers to the county when they build projects.

Fire stations 3, 6 and a brand new station 17 are funded by the sales tax while station 2, 5 and 10 will use impact fee money, according to the television station.

A Birmingham (AL) Fire and Rescue Service truck was stolen from the city’s Kingston fire station and recovered several hours later, according to a report published by Advanced Local Media.com.

According to the report, someone apparently walked into the station at about noon on Saturday, Aug. 28 and drove off with the truck. There were no witnesses and firefighters discovered the truck missing when they entered the bay, the report said.

The apparatus was recovered several hours later abandoned at 44 Terrace North and Cheek Road, according to the report.

There were no witnesses, and the incident is under investigation, according to the report.