Man steals ambulance with firefighter inside
Gals Tziperman Lotan, Orlando Sentinel:
Sanford police arrested a man accused of stealing an ambulance that was standing in front of a Sanford hospital, police said.
The ambulance, Sanford Fire Rescue truck 31, had delivered a patient to Central Florida Regional Hospital, spokeswoman Bianca Gillette said.
One firefighter-EMT was in the back of the ambulance when a man got behind the wheel and started driving, Gillette said.
WFTV-TVJames Weldon Sessions was arrested at about 4:39 p.m. Tuesday about two miles from the hospital where he’d stopped the ambulance and jumped into a retaining pond, Sanford police said.
Sessions hit another vehicle with the ambulance as he was driving away and slowed to a stop to let the firefighter in the back jump out, officers said.
A second ambulance at the hospital gave chase after the stolen vehicle and followed it to the dead end of Jewett Lane where Sessions stopped, got out and jumped into a retaining pond, police said.
The two individuals in the ambulance stopped Sessions from leaving until police could respond to the scene, the report said.
