A patient in an ambulance died late Wednesday night during a crash that injured five people, including two firefighters and two paramedics.
Riverside County firefighters were called to the crash off Ironwood Avenue and Pigeon Pass Road at 10:45 p.m. involving a car and an ambulance, Riverside County Fire spokeswoman Cheri Patterson said in a report.
The ambulance was transporting a cardiac patient when the crash occurred. The patient, identified as 47-year-old Ann B. Layton of Moreno Valley, died inside the ambulance.
The crash injured the two paramedics and two firefighters riding in the back of the ambulance with the patient.
The driver of the other car, as well as the paramedics and the two firefighters were taken by three additional ambulances to a nearby hospital. Two of the injuries were described as moderate and others as minor.
Authorities did not immediately say how the crash occurred.
