A fire engine ran over two people in West Sacramento on Oct. 18, killing one person and injuring another, authorities said.
The fire engine was responding to a report of a brush fire at a homeless encampment near railroad tracks on the 500 block of Jefferson Boulevard around 11 a.m. when it drove over a carpet on a dirt trail, West Sacramento Police Department spokesperson Taylor Nelson said in a statement to The Epoch Times on Oct. 21.
“As the brush rig accessed the scene, a firefighter ‘spotter’ was in front of the truck, to guide access through a debris-strewn area,” Nelson said in a statement….