Video: Long Island firefighter responds to fire at his own home. Pickup truck hit house & gas line.
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CNN:
When the call came in that a pickup truck had slammed into a house igniting a fire, volunteer firefighter Michael Cosgrove and his fellow firemen in the New York hamlet of Selden rushed to the scene.
It was only when their fire trucks neared the street that Cosgrove realized that the fire he’d be fighting would be at his own house.
When the call came into the fire station, it was from the house next to Cosgrove’s — leading firefighters to think that’s where the fire was, according to CNN affiliate WABC.
Last year, Cosgrove was named firefighter of the year for rescuing a man from a burning building as he waited for other firefighters to arrive.
A driver who allegedly was high on drugs slammed his pickup truck into a Suffolk County house belonging to a volunteer firefighter on Tuesday evening, sparking a raging fire, police said.
“He was stumbling. He refused to take a Breathalyzer test,” said witness William Gonzalez. “Police physically cuffed him and took him to the Sixth Precinct.”
The incident took place at the home at 4 Choate Ave. in Selden at 7:14 p.m. The house and the vehicle both caught fire, Suffolk County police said in a news release.
Upon arriving, officers learned that the driver of the red pickup truck had lost control of his vehicle, and had crashed into the natural gas line leading into the home.
First came the crash, then a hissing sound followed by the explosion.
