DETROIT – Local 4 has been following this story for months Detroit First responders get into serious accidents while responding to emergency calls.

We learned that several accidents involved Detroit fire trucks, and one incident sent seven people to the hospital.

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Late Saturday night, there was a report of a Molotov cocktail being thrown at a home on Detroit’s west side.

Footage from West Warren Avenue and Miller Road showed what happened when a Jeep SUV appeared to have crashed into a fire truck with its sirens and lights on.

No one was injured in the accident.

Sunday, a fire truck and a minivan collided at West McNichols Road and Wyoming Avenue on the city’s west side.

Seven people in the minivan had to be taken to hospital. All were treated and released.

The Detroit Fire Commissioner is making news as we spoke with him on Monday (November 4).

Detroit Fire is in a pilot program with HAAS Alerts to use the safety cloud technology.

The alert system on a fire truck can send a signal to Stellantis vehicles by turning off the stereo and placing an alert on the driver’s phone.

“Hopefully this will help curtail some of these accidents and alert people before they get to some kind of intersection or street,” said Detroit Fire Commissioner Charles Simms.