PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Two firetrucks responding to a call collided at a downtown intersection Thursday, injuring nine firefighters, one seriously.

Fire Commissioner Lloyd Ayers said none of the injuries appeared life-threatening after the crash, which involved a ladder truck and a fire engine in a residential neighborhood.

The most seriously injured firefighter, a lieutenant on the ladder truck, was knocked unconscious and had to be cut from the wreckage.

Ayers said he spoke at a hospital with the injured lieutenant, whose first question was, “How’s my guys?”

The ladder truck slammed into a utility pole, smashing in one of its sides, while the fire engine crashed into the back of a parked car.

No other injuries were reported, but a woman inside a flower shop nearly struck by the ladder truck was taken to a hospital for observation because she was shaken up, Ayers said.

The cause of the crash was under investigation.