Yonkers Engine Fired Upon Enroute To Call

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Just picked up on this story, even though it happened a couple weeks ago. Just goes to show the dangers are everywhere....thankfully it was only a BB gun.

Unfortunely, with the Journal News, after 7 days you have to buy the rest of the story, so this is the only info I could dig up for online. The print story says they were responding to a medical emergency, and his turnout gear prevented injury.

BB-gun shooter sprays firetruck

August 27, 2005 ••

Driver hit in shoulder in Yonkers, disrupting response to emergency

Will David and Ernie Garcia

The Journal News

YONKERS - Someone firing a BB or pellet gun peppered a Yonkers firetruck, hit a firefighter in the shoulder and broke a motorist's windshield in the Nodine Hill section of the city, authorities said yesterday. Yonkers firefighter Marek Pawelec, the driver of a rig that was responding to a medical emergency at 141 Beech St., was struck once in the shoulder

Edited September 17, 2005 by x635