A woman suffered through 20 minutes of terror while trapped inside the wreckage of an ambulance that flipped over after colliding with a Honda Civic in Kensington Thursday.
Firefighters who raced to the scene found the emergency vehicle sprawled on its side on Albemarle Road near E. Fourth Street at 9:52 am with the woman was trapped inside the wreck.
They freed her using the Hurst tool, the so-called “jaws of life.” She and two other injured people were transported to Lutheran Medical Center. All are in stable condition, said an FDNY spokeswoman.
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Trapped in terror: This woman was trapped inside the wreckage of an overturned ambulette for 20 minutes before firefighters were able to extract her with a pnuematic claw, following a collision the emergency vehicle sustained with a Honda Civic on Albermarle Road on Thursday.
Photo by Paul Martinka
