A heart attack patient was killed Thursday when a fire truck crashed into the ambulance that was carrying him to a Brooklyn hospital, authorities said.
The crash at Myrtle and Throop avenues in Bedford-Stuyvesant, involved two Fire Department vehicles happened shortly before 1:00AM. The fire truck was racing to a fire when it broadsided the ambulance, authorities said.
The patient in the ambulance, a 59-year-old man who had suffered a heart attack, was pronounced dead at the hospital he was being taken to, police said. A female family member who was traveling with the patient was in critical condition at the hospital.
A Fire Department spokesperson said six firefighters and two Emergency Medical Service workers were hospitalized in stable condition.
The crash is under investigation.
(AP)
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If I hear that shmendrick say wow one more time, then i might jus-
“WOW”
AAAAARGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!
and to think this whole thing could have been prevented if this guy stopped fressing….
Were the kevrah kaddisha needed in this tragic incident