MARCH 14, 2015
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH
Salt Lake City Fire
Department crews responded after a car crashed into a building and caught it on
fire Saturday afternoon, and HazMat crews were called in to address a gas meter
broken by the crash–which sent the elderly man driving the vehicle to a
hospital with injuries that are not life threatening.
According to
information from the Salt Lake City Fire Department, the fire broke out at a
building in the area of 624 North and 300 West. Officials tweeted about the
fire at 4:11 p.m., and by 4:45 p.m. they were reporting the fire was out.
The crash broke an
outside gas meter, and hazardous materials personnel were called to the scene
to fix the situation, according to SLC Fire Department.
The driver, a man in
his 70s, was taken to a hospital with injuries that were not serious.
Fire department
officials stated the cause of the crash is under investigation.