a crash involving an ambulance in Ohio this afternoon. A Grafton
Township ambulance was going south when it hit a civilians
car at an intersection on Route 303, just after noon.
The driver of the car, an 82-year-old man, was pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver of the ambulance and a passenger were taken to area hospitals. There
was a patient in the ambulance at the time of the crash who was taken by
another ambulance to the hospital. The crash is still under investigation.
CRASH KILLS PEDESTRIAN
An elderly man was struck and killed by a van that flipped over at a Queens
intersection after a freak accident involving a responding ambulance and a
commercial vehicle. The 75 year old pedestrian was killed just two blocks
from Elmhurst Hospital, where an FDNY ambulance carrying a patient
was enroute to around 0700 when it broadsided a van that flipped
on its side and slid into the intersection’s southeast corner, hitting the
civilian. The civilian was pronounced dead at the hospital, where
two FDNY EMS members and the van driver were also treated for minor
injuries. The ambulance patient was transported there in another ambulance.
FD EMS UNIT-Detroit EMS Rig Involved in Accident
A Detroit EMS truck that tried to stop slid into an intersection and
witnesses say a Dodge truck hit the EMS rig, which, in turn, struck a minivan.
What caused the crash? According to sources and pictures snapped at the scene,
the brakes failed on Medic 22. One photo shows that the tires were practically
bald (video below).
However, that doesn’t seem to matter to the city says Wisam Zeineh. As
president of Detroit’s FD EMS, he represents the workers and believes they are
put in danger every day. We asked if he knew when the trucks were last
maintained. He said, “I can’t answer that. It’s so infrequent that we ever get
any maintenance.”
“Really needs to be looked at how things are being run in this fire department.
Those that run it should be absolutely ashamed of themselves. The people that
work here have families that they want to go home to,” Zeineh said.
VIDEO AND PHOTOS HERE:
http://tinyurl.com/28vm4cf
APPARATUS VS METRO BUS CRASH
company and Metro bus collided sending 23 people to the hospital
around 1000 hours at the intersection 14th and Madison in Northwest
this morning. DC Fire and EMS Spokesman Pete Piringer says most people have neck
and back injuries. He says everyone is expected to be released from the
hospital Wednesday.
Pete said that 19 civilians and 4 Firefighters were being treated. He
says the fire apparatus was responding to an emergency call of a woman
that was struck by a vehicle. The fire apparatus had its lights and sirens
on at the time.
FIREHOUSE FIRE INJURES 1 FIREFIGHTER
station caught fire this morning and most of the FF’s live within a
few miles from the station in Canoe and immediately called for backup.
“We seen that we needed help and we sent out a call. I believe
every FD in Breathitt County come to us. And we appreciate that,”
said Canoe Fire Chief Ben Nickell. The fire tore through a building connected
with the stations apparatus bays, destroying the meeting room, kitchen, and
most of their storage. Despite all the damage, Nickell says that all of the
gear and apparatus they need to respond to calls was saved. Only one
firefighter was hurt in the blaze, suffering minor injuries. He was treated and
later released. The cause of the fire was electrical, starting in the
building with the most damage.
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