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Inmate firefighter takes engine on joyride, crashes and injures himself Teresa Watanabe © Provided by The LA Times A Cal Fire inmate crew watches as fire retardant is dropped at the Bruder fire in Redlands last year. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) An inmate firefighter stole a firetruck while fighting a vegetation fire in Gold Country outside Sacramento and took it on a joyride before crashing and injuring himself, a fire official said Monday. The 31-year-old inmate destroyed the fire engine when he drove it off the road and rammed it through a fence and into the lot of Rack-It Truck Racks in Shingle Springs, about 40 miles east of Sacramento, said Alisha Herring, spokeswoman for Cal Fire. He was working with Cal Fire s Amador-El Dorado unit and took the engine about 12:40 a.m. Monday, two hours after the crew responded to the vegetation fire, Herring said.

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