Eight firefighters were hurt -- including two critically -- when the fire truck they were in rolled over while returning from a 12-hour shift battling the Airport Fire wildfire, one of several large blazes raging in Southern California,

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

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.