A woman was killed Saturday after her car was hit at an intersection by a Denver Fire Department engine responding to a call.
About 11:22 a.m., Engine 22 was responding with lights and sirens to a kitchen fire at 9888 E. Vassar Drive, said Phil Champagne, spokesman for the Denver Fire Department.
The fire engine was traveling east on Hampden Avenue toward the Yosemite Street intersection.
As the engine approached, an 80-year-old woman driving a Hyundai Sonata apparently drove through the red stop light and into the intersection, said Lt. Matt Murray, spokesman for the Denver Police Department.
The fire engine attempted to avoid the Sonata, but slammed into the car. The engine then hit a Jeep Liberty waiting at the stoplight, pushing it into a Lexus behind it.
The drivers of those cars were not injured.
Emergency crews extricated the woman from her car. Firefighters performed CPR on the woman before she was transported to a nearby hospital, where she later died, Murray said.
Her name has not been released.
No firefighters were injured in the crash.
The crash is under investigation. Jordan Steffen, The Denver Post
