HOUSTON --
A Cypress-Fairbanks volunteer firefighter lost a leg after a man ran into him on Monday afternoon, KPRC Local 2 reported.
Harris County sheriff's deputies said a man driving a stolen car crashed into the firefighter outside an auto parts store on Aldine Bender Road near the Hardy Toll Road.
The firefighter was loading items into his pickup truck when he was hit. He was taken to Memorial Hermann Hospital in critical condition.
Cy-Fair Volunteer Fire Department officials said the firefighter had been a volunteer for about seven years.
Investigators said a woman and a baby were also in the stolen car. The man and woman tried to run with the baby, but witnesses held them down until deputies arrived.
Sgt. Susan Cotter said the driver, whose name was not released, would be charged with intoxication assault. She said the driver admitted to drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana before the wreck.
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