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1 dead when car collides with fire truck

Saturday, April 19, 2008

A Fire Truck collided with a car en-route to a call.

A woman is dead after the car she was driving in collided with a New York City fire truck on its way to a burning home.

All six firefighters on the truck were hospitalized after the accident at an intersection in the Jamaica section of Queens.

The truck from Engine Company 275 was responding to a fire at a three-story private home when it collided with a car driven by Angela Johnson, 27. Johnson was pronounced dead at the scene.

The Fire Department says two of the firefighters have more serious injuries; all are hospitalized at Long Island Jewish Hospital. The accident is under investigation.

 

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