Three members of t Fire-Rescue Department were seriously injured in a vehicle crash early Sunday while heading to assist in hurricane relief efforts in North Carolina, officials said.

Three members of t Fire-Rescue Department were seriously injured in a vehicle crash early Sunday while heading to assist in hurricane relief efforts in North Carolina, officials said.

Three members of a California search and rescue team were injured in a vehicle crash Sunday morning as they were driving cross-country to support Hurricane Helene relief efforts in North Carolina. The three people injured were part of the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department’s (SDFD) 48-person “Urban Search & Rescue California Task Force 8.

The crew, part of Urban Search & Rescue Task Force 8, is receiving medical care in Louisiana. The crash is under investigation.

Three members of the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department were seriously injured in a vehicle crash near the Texas-Louisiana border Sunday while on a support mission for those endangered by Hurricane Helene,

The three were injured on eastbound Highway 20 near the border of Texas and Louisiana at about 2:40 a.m. local time, said Asst. Fire Chief of Emergency Operations James Gaboury at a Sunday morning press conference.

The victims' injuries range from moderate to critical, and all three are currently recovering at the Louisiana State University Hospital in Shreveport, Louisiana, authorities said.

The crash happened early Sunday morning in Louisiana, and the firefighters are recovering at the Louisiana State University Hospital in Shreveport.