A firefighter crushed his foot between a fire truck and an ambulance after a freak accident caused by a transient early Wednesday.
Around 3 a.m., the Chico Fire Department and an ambulance responded to a medical call on 3rd Street and Broadway. When the units arrived on scene, they could not find anyone in need of assistance.
While parked, police said a believed transient, 45-year-old Roy Brown, jumped into the fire truck and tried to pull the driver out of the cab. The driver's foot lifted off of the brake and the truck started to roll forward.
The other firefighters tried to help, including a firefighter sitting in the passenger side of the cab. The passenger started to get out of the moving truck when it collided with the parked ambulance, crushing his foot.