CNN: Woman struck by flailing fire hose dies

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http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/01/29/massachusetts.fire.hose.deaths/index.html?hpt=T2

(CNN) -- 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.