Three San Diego firefighters traveling to help rescue efforts in North Carolina are recovering after they were seriously injured in a crash in East Texas. In a press conference Sunday, Assistant Fire Chief of the San Diego Fire Rescue Department James Gaboury said an emergency vehicle with California Task Force 8 was involved in a crash with a non-emergency vehicle on I-20 near the border of Texas and Louisiana All three task force members in the vehicle were injured in the crash and airlifted to Ochsner LSU Health Hospital in Shreveport,

The crash occurred around 2:45 a.m. Sunday on East Highway 20 near the border of Texas and Louisiana, officials said.

More resources and support have been sent to Louisiana to help the three San Diego Fire-Rescue task force members who were hurt in a crash while en route to help victims of Hurricane Helene.

One San Diego firefighter that was seriously injured in a vehicle crash near the Texas-Louisiana border while on a support mission for those endangered by Hurricane Helene has been released from the hospital,

One of the three members of the San Diego Fire Rescue Department’s urban search and rescue team who were injured in a wreck Sunday morning is being released from the hospital Tuesday (Oct. 1).

A hurricane relief crew headed to North Carolina from California was involved in a major crash Sunday morning near the Texas-Louisiana border along Interstate 20.