UPDATE: Aug. 23 1:40 p.m.
The KSP has released more details regarding a crash involving a Raywick Fire Department tanker truck and identified the two firefighters who were injured.
KSP says that 51-year-old Brian Hatt and 58-year-old Leonard Winkler were injured as a result of the crash. A preliminary investigation revealed that Hatt was driving north on KY 537 in the truck with emergency equipment activated to assist the Loretto Fire Department when the truck "dropped off the right shoulder of the roadway, causing the edge of the roadway to collapse."
Hatt then reportedly lost control of the truck and crossed the road. The truck then exited the left side of the road, hit an embankment, and overturned.
KSP says that Hatt was ejected and Winkler was entrapped. Hatt was then flown to the University of Louisville Hospital with reported life-threatening injuries, and Winkler was flown to the University of Kentucky Hospital with "serious" injuries.
Original Story:
An afternoon rollover accident in Marion County involving an apparatus has left two firefighters with the Raywick Fire Department seriously injured.
According to a social media post by non-profit Supporting Heroes, one firefighter was airlifted to the University of Louisville with critical injuries. The other firefighter was transported to the University of Kentucky Medical Center in serious condition.
Departments from across the state have reshared that post in support of the department and the injured firefighters.
"Please keep Raywick Fire Department and their members in your thoughts and prayers as two of their firefighters were seriously injured this afternoon in a rollover accident involving an apparatus," wrote Sonora Fire Department in Hardin County.
Rineyville Fire Department asked for the public's prayers and positive thoughts for those injured.
