Fire, medic vehicles crash in Logan

Seven emergency responders and three civilians suffered non-life-threatening injuries in an accident in the city's Logan section late Tuesday afternoon, said Fire Commissioner Lloyd Ayers.

Several fire vehicles and a medic unit were responding to an accident report shortly before 6 p.m. when two of the vehicles collided with a taxi and two other private automobiles at Tabor Road and Wagner Avenue, Ayers said.

Four firefighters and one paramedic were transported to nearby Albert Einstein Medical Center, Ayers said. Two others were taken to Temple University Hospital. All were execpected to be treated and released overnight. Three civilians whose injuries were not reported as serious went to Einstein and Temple.

   -Robert Moran