03/05/2009

Associated Press

A Boone County firefighter is injured when her pumper truck overturns as she rushes to a grass fire.

The Columbia Tribune is reporting that Samantha Lamp overcorrected after the truck she was driving went off the side of the road Wednesday afternoon. The truck overturned 1 1/2 times and caught fire near Harrisburg.

Boone County Fire Protection District division chief Gale Blomenkamp says a firefighter in another truck helped Lamp out of the truck.

She was not burned but complained of head and neck pain. She was taken to the Boone Hospital Center. Lamp was the only occupant of the truck.

Blomenkamp says the fire the truck was responding to was easily contained by additional units dispatched after the wreck.

The crash closed Route J for more than two hours.

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Information from: Columbia Daily Tribune, http://www.columbiatribune.com