Four Delray Beach Fire Rescue employees, including top brass, have been placed on administrative leave with pay after a Brightline train smashed into a fire truck last Saturday. Assistant Chief Kevin Green,

The crossing gates were lowered and the fire truck was straddling the tracks when the high-speed train approached, a video of the collision shows.

Delray Beach Fire Chief Ronald Martin announced Friday on Facebook that four employees will remain on leave with pay, pending the result of an internal investigation. According to Martin, this process is standard city policy.

Brightline is responding after 15 people were injured when one of its trains crashed into a fire engine in Delray Beach on Saturday morning.

The high-speed rail operator posted a video on social media showing the moments leading up to the direct-impact crash.

A Brightline train was stopped on the tracks, its front completely destroyed about a block away from a twisted fire truck that lay on its side.

CBS News Miami's Joan Murray is in Delray Beach where the fire chief acknowledged the crash involving a fire truck and a Brightline train is a "sobering reminder emergency responders must always balance the urgency in their work with caution.

Four members of the Delray Beach Fire Rescue Department have been placed on administrative leave while an investigation is conducted into the Dec. 28, 2024, incident that saw one of the department’s ladder trucks hit by a Brightline train.

As of Monday, three Delray Beach firefighters remained in stable condition at a hospital. From the Brightline Safety and Security Team: Railroad safety is a community wide effort. For everyone’s safety, never drive around crossing gates when they are down. pic.twitter.com/6TSeHHOuyq

Delray Beach Fire Chief Ronald Martin said in a Facebook post Friday evening that four employees are being placed on administrative leave with pay.

Four Delray Beach firefighters have been placed on administrative leave following their involvement in a train crash in late December.