Skorcher
01-29-2010, 08:14 AM
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/01/29/massachusetts.fire.hose.deaths/index.html?hpt=T2
"An 82-year-old woman died Thursday, two days after a hose dangling off a passing fire truck struck her in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The Cambridge Fire Department truck was en route to a scene Tuesday morning, lights flashing and sirens wailing, when a hose slipped out of a compartment in the vehicle's side.
The driver continued on, unaware that the hose was unspooling, witnesses said. "We're talking at least 50 yards of hose that I could see," a witness told CNN affiliate WCVB.
Cambridge Police Department spokeswoman Jennifer Flagg told CNN as the truck turned a corner, "the hose swung around like a slingshot and the (metal nozzle) end of the hose" hit Gertrude King."
Some people have all (or none) of the luck, huh?
"An 82-year-old woman died Thursday, two days after a hose dangling off a passing fire truck struck her in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The Cambridge Fire Department truck was en route to a scene Tuesday morning, lights flashing and sirens wailing, when a hose slipped out of a compartment in the vehicle's side.
The driver continued on, unaware that the hose was unspooling, witnesses said. "We're talking at least 50 yards of hose that I could see," a witness told CNN affiliate WCVB.
Cambridge Police Department spokeswoman Jennifer Flagg told CNN as the truck turned a corner, "the hose swung around like a slingshot and the (metal nozzle) end of the hose" hit Gertrude King."
Some people have all (or none) of the luck, huh?