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CAR CRASHES INTO FIREHOUSE IN NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA. THE DRIVER MAY HAVE FALLEN ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL









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.