A crash involving an ambulance and a pickup truck sent four people to the hospital, including two responding paramedics.
According to the Los Angeles Fire Department, an LAFD Paramedic Rescue ambulance was responding to a medical emergency when it was struck broadside by the pickup at the intersection of Van Nuys Boulevard and San Fernando Road around 12:35 a.m. Sunday morning.
As a result of the collision, the pickup truck continued on to collide with a nearby utility pole, leaving the two men inside the vehicle trapped.
“The two adult male occupants…were badly trapped in the wreckage of their severely damaged truck before being freed by a team of LAFD responders,” LAFD said in a release.
Both men were transported to a nearby hospital in critical condition.
The two LAFD paramedics were able to self-extricate from the wreckage of their ambulance and sustained non-life-threatening injuries and were transported to a nearby hospital.
“The initial medical emergency that the paramedic team was headed to was quickly handled successfully by another LAFD crew,” the fire department said.
Video posted to the Citizen App shows the crushed pickup truck adjacent to several responding LAFD units, with witnesses looking on as investigators began to sort through the wreckage.