Six members of a firefighting crew were burned Tuesday in a training accident in a remote area of Los Angeles County north of Castaic.
Paramedics sent to Golden State Highway at Templin Highway at about 11:15 a.m. took all six victims for hospital treatment, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
The department initially reported that one of the victims was transported in critical condition but later said that all patients suffered “mild to moderate burns” and were in stable condition.
The injured people were members of a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation firefighting “hand crew” and were injured when “a flash fire occurred in the back of an inmate camp crew vehicle,” according to the LACFD.
Officer Josh Greengard of the California Highway Patrol told KTLA5 that the crew was engaged in a training exercise.
The cause of the fire was under investigation.