The numbers are painful. Three Southern California wildfires had eaten up 117,546 acres by Saturday, Sept. 21, damaging at least 55 structures and destroying another 242 — many of them homes. Twenty-four firefighters and civilians had been injured.

The crash occurred when an Orange County Fire Authority truck swerved to miss a ladder in the road, causing it to flip, reports say.

After the recent heat wave elevated fire danger across Southern California, more than 100,000 acres were scorched in eight separate fires as of Tuesday. Here are the active wildfires by county. The Bridge Fire in the Angeles National Forest near Glendora burned 4,178 acres at 0% containment as of Tuesday.

The three fires continued to burn Wednesday, forcing evacuations and threatening homes around Southern California.

Eight firefighters were hurt when a fire truck crashed on a freeway near Irvine, California, on Thursday night, authorities said. The Orange County Fire Authority truck overturned on State Route 241 at about 6:50 p.

Authorities say eight firefighters have been injured in a severe highway crash involving a fire truck in Southern California.