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4 injured after garbage truck hits ambulance

Of the injured EMTs and sanitation workers, one had to be extricated from the truck that jumped curb and struck a wall surrounding a building

NY Daily News

NEW YORK — Four city workers were hospitalized Tuesday morning after a city sanitation truck struck a fire department ambulance in Brooklyn, officials said.

The two vehicles collided at the corner of Dean St. and Classon Ave. about 10:15 a.m. as the ambulance was racing to respond to a cardiac arrest call. The two sanitation workers and the two paramedics were taken to Kings County Hospital with serious but nonlife-threatening injuries, officials said.

An FDNY spokesman said response time to the cardiac arrest call wasn’t affected by the accident because a second ambulance was already on its way to the scene.

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