FEBRUARY 27, 2015
NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA, PA
A driver failed to navigate a turn properly causing his
vehicle to crash into a firehouse in Northeast Philadelphia early Friday
morning.
FOX 29's Steve Keeley was the first on the scene this
morning at Engine 52 located on the corner of Van Kirk Street and Harbison
Avenue.
Just before 2 a.m. Friday morning, the car crashed into the
firehouse doors, hitting an ambulance parked inside. The impact was so strong
it sent the ambulance 10 feet back into a row of steel lockers. The 40-year-old
driver of the car says that he fell asleep at the wheel.
Battalion Chief Charles Lepre of the Philadelphia Fire
Department said that an employee in the radio room at Engine 52 heard the crash
and alerted the other firefighters on duty as well as their lieutenant. They
came out and helped the driver of the vehicle.
“He thinks he fell asleep,” Lepre said of the driver.
The driver of the car sustained minor injuries in the crash.