Arizona City Fire District won first place in the category of Best Public Safety Award in Casa Grande's 21st Annual Electric Light Christmas Parade. This was the first year the Fire District had entered the parade. The parade was held Dec 5, the day after the big Santa Fly-In production held at the Fire District's station.

"The award is decided by four or five volunteer judges with first, second and third place awards among first responders of public safety," Shayla Gunn, Casa Grande Parks and Recreation Coordinator, said. "It is often very difficult for the judges to decide which entry is best."

Parade participants were riding inside the fire engine and walking beside it while children were sitting on top of the fire engine eating Christmas candy. Everyone was waving and yelling Merry Christmas to the crowd as they proudly represented Arizona City for the first time.

Baylee Northern, Miguel Macias and Jose Conde were a few of the enthusiastic Central Arizona Valley Institute of Technology (CAVIT) young cadets walking beside the fire engine. CAVIT cadets, are often enrolled in the CAVIT Fire Science program while in their late teens. They are responsible young people who aspire to work in the fire industry.

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A fire truck was involved in a major accident while heading to the scene of a mobile home fire in Crosby.

Firefighters were responding to a call for a fire at a home in the 20000 block of Jersey Drive when the accident happened on Crosby Eastgate Road and Highway 90.

Harris County Sheriff's deputies and EMS crews are on the scene.

We are working to gather more details and will provide updates as they become available.

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Six firefighters were treated for non-life-threatening injuries after the fire truck they were riding in crashed in Hubbard Township.

The Warren post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol says the Eagle Joint Fire District firefighters were responding to a call just after 1 a.m. when the truck went off westbound Chestnut Ridge Road just west of Wick Campbell Road, hitting a culvert, ditch, mailbox and a tree. The truck was not running its lights or siren.

The vehicle was being driven by Thomas Gregory, 60, of Hubbard. He was charged with failure to maintain reasonable control.

Life Fleet ambulances and the Brookfield Township Fire Department assisted at the scene. The firefighters were taken to St. Elizabeth Medical Center for treatment.

Ohio State Highway Patrol Lt. Brian Holt said the firefighters were lucky.

The fire truck, however, was not so lucky.

Because of damage to the truck, mutual aid from another fire department responded to the call. Holt said he believes that the truck will be out of service for quite some time.

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Each year the fire truck is decorated for an "Old Fashioned Christmas Parade."