{"id":415774,"date":"2025-11-30T20:28:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T20:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/415774\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T20:28:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T20:28:23","slug":"four-houston-firefighters-18-wheeler-driver-hospitalized-after-montgomery-county-crash-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/415774\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Houston firefighters, 18-wheeler driver hospitalized after Montgomery County crash, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/B504F5DA644FAA0C9D8F89FEDF181EE9.jpg\" alt=\"Houston firefighters, 18-wheeler driver hospitalized after collision\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><strong>HOUSTON<\/strong> &#8211; Four Houston firefighters were sent to a hospital after an 18-wheeler struck their firetruck on the Eastex Freeway in Montgomery County early Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>   Eastex Freeway crash involving Houston firetruck <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The crash was reported at about 3:30 a.m. Sunday on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Eastex+Freeway+Feeder+Rd+%26+Northpark+Dr,+Houston,+TX+77365\/@30.0679463,-95.2489933,14z\/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x86474d476f6f639d:0x92d03e5a72da4248!8m2!3d30.0697906!4d-95.2464861!16s%2Fg%2F11hb2gyj3h?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI1MTEyMy4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Highway 59 North at the Northpark Drive<\/a> entrance ramp.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">According to the Houston Department, the fire engine was blocking traffic from a separate vehicle accident when an 18-wheeler struck the truck.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1b393afe-image.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">18-wheeler crashes into Houston Fire engine on the Eastex Freeway (Photo credit: Houston Fire Department) <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Four firefighters and the 18-wheeler driver were hospitalized. Officials say the firefighters suffered different injuries, but they&#8217;re all expected to recover.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The cause of the crash hasn&#8217;t been determined. Houston Police are investigating.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">No one involved has been identified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> OnScene and Houston Fire Department<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/traffic\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Traffic<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/montgomery-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Montgomery County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/houston-fire-department\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Houston Fire Department<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; Four Houston firefighters were sent to a hospital after an 18-wheeler struck their firetruck on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":415775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[4345,16300,9631,50,358,314,3187,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-415774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-houston-fire-department","10":"tag-montgomery-county","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-traffic","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115640540409207821","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}