GRATTAN TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Three Michigan firefighters were injured after a car ran into their apparatus, but they managed to crawl out of the wreckage and begin treating the other driver.

Dave Odette of The Grand Rapids Press/MLive.com reports that three Grattan Township firefighters were injured early Saturday morning after a car struck their fire engine head-on.


MLive.com reported that while enroute to a wires down call, a car approaching in the opposite direction first pulled onto the shoulder, struck a guardrail and then pulled back onto the road into the path of the fire engine. The force of the collision ejected the driver of the car and caused the Grattan Township fire engine to overturn.

Cannon Township firefighters as well as Kent County Sheriff's deputies responded to the scene. The injured driver was transported to Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital and the three firefighters were taken to United Memorial Hospital in Greenville.

The Lowell Fire Department responded to the original call, wires down and a tree on fire.