Fire and EMS are very much separated in NY, so I wouldn't be able to say much about how they're trained or how they operate. I can tell you accidents like that involving firetrucks are very rare for the volume of runs. But I'm sure they have their wing nuts like any other job. I've only been assigned in Upper Manhattan and the Bronx and we don't try to race anyone anywhere or beat other companies into their boxes. Manhattan has too much traffic and too many intersections for a firetruck to get going too fast, and the Bronx is full of laid back gentlemen. You make up time by getting out of the house quickly, not by speeding around. I've heard stories about the outer boroughs, but not enough to testify. EMS does have a lot longer responses to runs and to the hospital, so things could be different for them. We rarely drive far to get where we're going.
I read elsewhere that the two ambulances were both responding to another unit calling an emergency help call since they were fighting a psych patient.
Then all bets are off. Lots of cop wrecks happen that way for sure. A while back the engine in my house was on the way back from a run, when they happened on a woman getting stomped by a man on a street corner. They stopped to help and the building they were in front of emptied out. Their radio call brought us flying down the road, only to see the chief in his SUV sliding into the block from the other end. Sometimes you have to do what you have to do.
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