{"id":477457,"date":"2026-09-27T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/477457\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T15:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T15:00:09","slug":"ventura-county-firefighter-suffers-significant-injuries-after-being-struck-by-a-car-on-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/477457\/","title":{"rendered":"Ventura County firefighter suffers &#8220;significant injuries&#8221; after being struck by a car on-duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An on-duty firefighter with the Ventura County Fire Department suffered significant injuries after they were hit by a car in Simi Valley early Sunday morning, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the department, the firefighter was hit at about 3 a.m. while working at the scene of an unrelated traffic collision that took place in the area of State Route 118 and the Tapo Canyon Road on-ramp.<\/p>\n<p>The firefighter, who remains unidentified publicly, was transported to a local hospital with significant injuries. The exact injuries were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>As of 6:45 a.m., it&#8217;s not yet clear if the driver who hit the firefighter could face any criminal penalties. The CHP didn&#8217;t disclose whether alcohol, drugs or speed could&#8217;ve been a factor in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>No additional details were immediatley made available. The CHP&#8217;s investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An on-duty firefighter with the Ventura County Fire Department suffered significant injuries after they were hit by a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-477457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}