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"One person was killed Monday evening in a crash involving an ambulance at Frankfort Avenue and River Road.Police said the ambulance was responding to a call when the crash happened.Two emergency medical technicians in the ambulance had to be rescued from the vehicle and were taken to University Hospital with serious injuries.\u201CThey are pretty serious traumatic injuries. They were both extricated from the vehicle,\u201D said Kristin Miller, Metro EMS chief of staff.The ambulance was traveling eastbound on River Road when authorities said a Geo Metro made a right turn off of Frankfort Avenue and into the path of the ambulance.\u00A0\u201CThese vehicles are traveling at a high rate of speed, but they are trained for that type of vehicle operation. They are trained to be evasive when necessary,\u201D Miller said.But the ambulance couldn't react in time and slammed into the smaller vehicle.The driver of the car was pronounced dead at the scene.Miller said the ambulance had the lights on and the siren wailing at the time of the crash.\u201CWe ask for the public's help in listening for sirens, looking for lights, being aware of how fast moving those vehicles are,\u201D she said.The two injured EMS workers were alert when they were rescued.\u00A0\u201CI think they were able to talk a little bit, but obviously couldn't talk about what happened because we were focused on making sure they out of that vehicle safely and got to the hospital,\u201D Miller said.Miller said all EMS workers risk their lives to help others and an incident like this an unfortunate but very real part of the job.\u201CIt's a dangerous job and we are lucky that we have people who are brave enough do it,\u201D she said.The names of the EMS workers involved in the crash have not been released and the extent of their injuries is unknown.The name of the person killed has also not been released.It's unclear whether anyone was at fault in the crash. An investigation is now underway."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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