Updated at 12:18 AM EDT on Thursday, Jul 30, 2015
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fire truck slammed into a shuttle bus in front of a Westchester casino
Wednesday evening, hurting 10 people in both vehicles, authorities say.
Yonkers
Fire Commissioner John Darcy said the fire department received a call
to head to 41 Maple Pl. at about 6 p.m. Engine 313 pulled out of its
fire station and about a half-block away, struck the Empire Casino
shuttle bus, at Yonkers and Kimball avenues.
The
shuttle bus appeared to have been heading west when it was hit by the
fire truck, Darcy said. It was a few blocks away from Empire Casino.
"A
lot of people were bleeding badly, mostly the people on the bus," said
witness Tony Finar of Yonkers. "Taken out on stretchers, definitely not
conscious."
Six
civilians on the bus were taken to St. Joseph's Hospital and
Westchester Medical Center with varying degrees of injury, Darcy said.
The extent of their injuries and their ages were not immediately clear,
but at least some of them were elderly.
All
four firefighters in the truck suffered back and neck injuries and were
taken to Jacobi Hospital. They're expected to be OK.
Darcy said there was damage to the fire truck and "it looked like a pretty significant impact."