Officials to give update on 8 firefighters injured in rollover crash on Orange County freeway

Officials are providing an update at 10 a.m. Friday on the eight firefighters injured during a rollover crash on an Orange County freeway Thursday night.

The crash occurred in Irvine on the 241 toll road near SR-133 when the fire truck swerved to avoid a ladder in the roadway shortly before 7 p.m.

The maneuver caused the vehicle to strike a guardrail and overturn , leaving six firefighters with critical injuries and two with minor injuries.

"We ask that you pray for our firefighters and their families," Brian Fennessy, fire chief of the Orange County Fire Authority, said following the crash Thursday night. "All the families have been notified. This is the beginning of a long road for many of those firefighters and our fire departments."

The truck belonged to the Orange County Fire Authority Santiago Hand Crew.

The firefighters were heading home after battling the ongoing Airport Fire in Trabuco Canyon.

No other vehicles were involved in the crash.