Brooklyn, NY : Five people injured when a fire engine crashed into an SUV in Brooklyn on Sunday, December 20, 2015

Five people were injured, including a 9-year-old girl, when a fire engine collided with an SUV in Brooklyn, flipping the car Sunday afternoon, police said.

The FDNY’s Engine 248 was on its way to a fire when it collided with a grey Nissan Xterra at New York and Snyder Aves. in East Flatbush around 12:30 p.m., authorities said.

The SUV was sent rolling through the intersection before it came to a stop near on its passenger side.

The four women inside the Nissan were taken to Kings County Hospital, officials said. Two of them were listed in serious condition while the other two suffered minor injuries.

A firefighter also suffered minor injuries from the collision, a Fire Department spokesman said.

The engine had been called to respond to a space-heater fire at a home on E. 45th Street, near Clarendon Road, but it wasn’t immediately clear if it was en route to the blaze when it crashed, an FDNY spokesman said.

Fire Department officials and the NYPD's Collision Investigation Squad were probing the incident.

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Crash between fire engine and SUV in Brooklyn injures five, two in serious condition