The firefighters had been battling the massive Airport Fire​ before eight were seriously injured in a rollover crash on a freeway in Orange County, officials said.

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

The firefighters had just finished a 12-hour shift fighting the Airport fire, which has charred thousands of acres of wildland in Orange and Riverside counties over the last several days, when the