NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - At least 14 people, including two firefighters, were hurt when a FDNY truck racing to the scene of a fire collided with a bus Sunday in Queens. It happened around 12:30 p.m. at the intersection of Ditmars Boulevard and 21st Street.
“The fire truck came blazing through, sirens,” said witness Lucy Treadway. “We’re watching it, we’re watching it, and then all of a sudden, bam!”
A terrified Treadway was walking her baby when it happened, and said the fire truck driver didn’t even hit the brakes.
“He obviously didn’t look,” Treadway said.
The rig wound up with a mangled front bumper and the driver’s windshield knocked out.
The 12 civilians and two firefighters who were hurt suffered non-life threatening injuries. Four of the injured victims were taken to the hospital along with the firefighters.
“I was on the phone, and when I came back to it, I was on the other side of the bus,” Torres said.
Witnesses say the fire engine had its lights flashing and siren on as i
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