Stolen ambulance crashes and catches fire at 8 Mile and Beck, Wayne County MI
Motor Vehicle TheftA stolen MedStar ambulance was chased by police and crashed at the intersection near 8 Mile and Beck. The ambulance hit a patrol car and a GMC vehicle. The ambulance caught fire and was extinguished by fire crews. Multiple patients were involved, including a person in the GMC with hip and shoulder injuries. The patient in the ambulance was reported to be okay. Emergency units blocked the intersection and responded to the scene.
Audio|Source: Plymouth-Northville Area Public Safety
09:31
Transcript:
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400 and 600 units of BOL[1] and assist for Novi. They have a stolen MedStar ambulance heading south on Novi.
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30 copies.
00:14
1527.
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Westbound on 8 mile approaching center now.
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20 caps.
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30 copies.
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48 copies.
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447 that copy you trying to get out of the car wash line.
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44 is going to have traffic.
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30 radios, nobody pursuing that vehicle.
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Go ahead.
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Novi is trying to catch up to it, but they're not directly behind it.
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Okay.
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Haggerty and Joy,
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custom plate, (number withheld),
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(name withheld),
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HL-0C-E, will be a white epochs.
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Westbound on a mott passing pass.
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Haggerty and Joy,
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1528.
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Westbound an 8 mile now approaching back road.
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The ambulance. The ambulance may have crashed at 8 and Beck.
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48, I'm almost there.
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Is anybody close to that?
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448 is the closest.
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I'm sick and chill.
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48, confirm it has been crashed.
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Send FD[3], there is smoke.
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Cabby.
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It has crashed into a patrol car.
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Copy crashed into a patrol car. We're getting FD[3].
02:20
Bay 17, the station one monitor is making area of 8-filing back, hitting back for a crash ambulance that is smoking.
02:28
Day 17 is on the air of 1530. Okay,
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we're finding what to do.
02:34
We'll put a troll car in a hit.
02:36
FD[3] calling that was Plymouth you were addressing.
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C-17-03-202.
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O3 with 2 to 8 mile and back for a single PI[2] involving a Red Star ambulance that is smoking.
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1711, who's fine?
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I'm assuming it's no-vice patrol vehicle.
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Forty-eight, can you confirm?
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A live-control vehicle. It doesn't look like a hit, looks like it lost them in. California.
03:08
Copy 44 secure.
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Copy-44 secure.
03:11
There is another vehicle that was hit, copy of plate.
03:15
We have page 17, 1711, respond number two.
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47 in the area.
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1531.
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48 radio is actively on fire.
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Copy reporting actively on fire.
03:39
Dispatches Station 1, responding to 8 Mile Back, 8 mile back for an ambulance versus patrol vehicle. Ambulance versus Patrol vehicle crash.
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We did also dispatch out Norville City, unknown on jurisdiction, PDs on scene, unknown on injuries, 1531.
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301.
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A 17 to responding units unseen reported is on fire now, active fire.
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30 radio and 6 in fact.
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1532.
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Copy.
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Both are copy.
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20 to come up on 7.7.7.
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7.10, 11, copies.
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Units on fire.
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Copy. Is anybody in custody?
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Morning custody from Novice.
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Time for all yes, slowdown.
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17-17-03.
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Andrew 1, Rescue 1 in route.
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17-03.
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Copy asking all you have to slow down.
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Okay. Okay.
04:47
17-0-3 is arrival.
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We'll be investigating, establishing command.
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Surrey, sir.
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O-3s arrives is establishing command and investigating.
04:58
Engine 1 and Rescue 1, responding to 8-and-back for a MedStar ambulance that was stolen and was boxed in and possibly crashed by Novi PD.
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Everyone is out on scene. We also have City and HBA in route.
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Command 11's pulling up. Where would you like us?
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Special Battalion was a route from Station 1.
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Battalion went around.
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I'm going to have you pulled through the intersection. We're going to have to pull line.
05:30
Ambuluses on fire.
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42. I'll check Fleet Street.
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All units are advising that the ambulance is on fire as well.
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Copy, I've got nothing around the building all the way through Ann Arbor Trail.
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2-08.
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48? 48?
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What do you need, sir?
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I can tell you one, copy.
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You got me.
05:56
Please tone out the station two as well for that location.
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370s and a lot with arrival.
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Copy.
06:04
All the entire intersection is blocked. We eight mile moving both ways.
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Councilor. 20 and 30 if you have to help them all of that.
06:15
20 copies. Break 30 from a different way than back. It's backed up for that.
06:25
Copy that, I'm at back in West Maine. I'll try to loop around.
06:30
Station 2 units are responding to 8 mile and back. Eight mile and back for an ambulance that is on fire as well as PI[2]A at 1534.
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Dispatch from Chief 2. Chief 2 in row.
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Chief 2 in row.
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30-year radio. He needs to be cleared, Julie.
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1634.
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20.
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You're on team.
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30-0.
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48 radio.
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Go.
07:01
Can you send EMS[4] this way? We have a patient from another vehicle that was hit by the ambulance. It's banged up pretty bad.
07:11
We have every township FD[3] unit responding as well as the city.
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Go on for Bay 17.
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Copy, thank you.
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We have water on the ambulance at this time.
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Agent 2 rescue route.
07:27
You say one out of the ambulance at this time.
07:30
Engine 2 rescue 2 responding to a mile back.
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We advise it sounds like there's going to be multiple patients.
07:37
We have a vehicle that was struck by the ambulance as well that is going to have a patient needing an e-vail, trying to get further at 1535.
07:48
48.
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24 is now?
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1536.
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The patient that was in the ambulance that crashed is okay.
07:59
The person that was in the GMC that got hit by the ambulance is found in the ambulance.
08:06
You are broken? What are the injuries in the GMC?
08:11
817 injuries are going to be a hip and shoulder injury on the GMC. Message received hip and shoulder injury in the GMC.
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We got the injuries from FD[3], thank you.
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Copy.
08:23
For units responding at 8 and back, the patient that was in the back of the ambulance is okay.
08:29
The ambulance struck a GMC that patient is complaining of shoulder and hip pain.
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The 21 copies,
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two patients at this time, one patient in the ambulance, also a driver, a separate vehicle.
08:46
Command, we're down to a quarter tank.
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Stop it.
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Only radio.
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20.
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I'll be diverting all northbound back traffic on to west May.
08:59
Free units responding to AIMEAC, City, FEC is on scene attempting to extinguish the fire, and they have a quarter tank left.
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817, our name-law command,
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revise,
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players out.
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The Italian one copy, squatter-tank left, players being extinguished by the city at this time.
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diverting northbound traffic onto west-main.
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Messengers receiving on the fire is out, fire is out.
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They're now reporting, fires out.
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Fire's out. Fire's out.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
BOL: Alert to locate and monitor a person, vehicle, or item of interest.
[2]
PI: Personal Injury accident (motor vehicle crash with injuries)
[3]
FD: Fire Department
[4]
EMS: Emergency medical services response for medical assistance or support.
Disclaimer:
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Location mentioned:
Eight Mile W & Beck Rd, Northville Township, MI 48167
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