By Randy Ludlow
The Columbus Dispatch
CHILLICOTHE, Ohio — A volunteer fire department in rural Ross County is minus a fire truck after an early-morning joy ride ended in a crash that destroyed the tanker truck and critically injured the suspected thief.
A man broke into the Harrison Township fire station, jumped aboard a 2003 Kenworth tanker truck and took off down Charleston Pike east of Chillicothe with the lights flashing and the siren wailing, authorities said.
The thief didn’t get far. The westbound fire truck ran off the road about 12:08 a.m., hit a guardrail and overturned, throwing the man from the vehicle, according to the Chillicothe post of the State Highway Patrol.
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