Two Waterbury fire trucks collided while heading to a fire this morning, sending eight firefighters to the hospital and critically injuring two. The two trucks, a ladder truck and an engine, collided at about 10:30AM a spokesman for the department said. The trucks were responding to a kitchen fire in a home, he said.

The engine truck was headed west on East Aurora Street and the ladder truck was traveling north on Route 73 when they collided at a high rate of speed at the intersection of the two roadways.

The impact spun the engine truck around. It stopped before going over an embankment and into a ditch.

(Source: 1010WINS)