VIDEO: “Catastrophic” — that’s how Bob Douglas, the Chief of the Lewistown Borough Fire Department, described the scene of Sunday afternoon’s Junction Fire Company tanker crash in Mifflin County. Dozens of crews from in and around the county responded to the crash at 3rd and Grand Street in Lewistown Borough. “The tanker that was involved in the accident was responding to a brush fire in Granville Township,” Douglas said. “It is not a borough vehicle; it was coming through the borough to respond to Granville Township for a brush fire and it came together with another vehicle in the intersection.”
The amount of water inside the tanker to blame — around 1800 gallons. “If they do any kind of quick movement, that water shifts probably threw everything off balance,” he explained. Two Junction Fire Company crew members were on board at the time of the crash. “They were both transported to Lewistown Hospital with injuries,” Douglas added. “To what extent, I don’t know yet.”
