11:20AM EST: An FDNY truck responding to an emergency call has struck a NYC bus injuring approximately 30 people, including 4 firefighters.
Sources tell YWN that the fire truck involved is Ladder 103 in Brooklyn and the bus is route B-15.
The truck was on its way to an emergency run when the accident occurred at the corner of Hegman & Stone Avenues in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. Numerous firefighters were reportedly trapped & unconscious in the wreckage, and the NYPD ESU & FDNY Rescue units were expedited to the scene.
The exact condition of the injured firefighters and civilians was not immediately known to YWN.
(Yehuda Drudgestein / YWN-170)
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FDNY truck collides with MTA bu
By Tim Fleischer
NEW YORK (WABC) — A fire truck and MTA bus collided in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn injuring several people, including firefighters.
The FDNY ladder truck and the bus collided at the intersection of New Lots Avenue and Mother Gaston Boulevard just before 11 a.m.
Six firefighters from Ladder 103 were rushed to the hospital, two with serious but non-life threatening injuries.
At least one was temporarily pinned in the ladder truck. They were taken to hospitals.
Meanwhile, 19 people on the bus were shaken up and were being treated.
Many of the injured were taken to Kings County Hospital.
The front of the bus suffered extensive front-end damage and the windows were blown out.
The condition of the driver is unknown at this time.
Eyewitness News is told the ladder truck was on its way to a car fire when the accident occurred.
Officials are trying to figure out the cause of the crash is under investigation.
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I would not be surprised if the facts will tell us the fire department was at fault.
How many times do we see fire department or other emergancy vehicle driving like maniacs at intersections where they have a red light and NOT slowing down at intersections?
The fire department always assumes that people hear their sirens but if the window is up and a driver has the radio on it sometimes can be hard to hear a siren until the last second. At the same time I must admit that there are many drivers who have no respect for emergancy vehicles and could not care less until they find out it’s their own grandmother in the emergancy vehicle trying to get by.
Emergancy vehicles MUST obey laws regardless of what they are respnding to and this is NYS law.
At the same time regular drivers driving in NYC ought to drive like human beings.
Can YW update with the facts on this case?
“I would not be surprised if the facts will tell us the fire department was at fault.”
Do you always jump to conclusions like this? You’ve never seen a bus in NY pull into traffic without signals and without looking?