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Day County South Dakota Ambulance Catches Fire Transporting Patient
A ride in an ambulance can be scary enough, now imagine the ambulance you're riding in breaks out into flames.
That's what happened on Sunday, (June 9) when a Day County South Dakota ambulance crew was transporting a patient to North Dakota on Interstate 29.
According to Dakota News Now, the ambulance caught fire causing a northbound lane on I-29 to close, and a subsequent four-vehicle accident to occur a short time later.
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Dakota News Now reports that the ambulance driver came to a stop in the lane and with the help of another EMT, was able to safely assist the patient away from the ambulance from the rear. The patient was then transferred into the care of another ambulance dispatched from Breckenridge-Wahpeton. The patient was then transferred to Sanford Hospital in Fargo.
The multiple-vehicle accident occurred on I-29 about one mile south of the ambulance. A car rear-ended another vehicle, which caused two additional northbound vehicles to be struck.
Dakota News Now reports that a total of nine people were involved in the four-vehicle accident. Five of those individuals needed to be transported to hospitals in Fargo for their injuries.
The report also states that the Day County ambulance engulfed in flames was a total loss.
Sunday's ambulance fire closed the northbound lane of I-29 for roughly 45 minutes while crews contained the blaze inside the EMS vehicle.
Source: Dakota News Now
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