Bottle thrown at Garfield, NJ fire engine causes serious eye injury for firefighter
Garfield police say a volunteer firefighter suffered an eye injury when a bottle was thrown at her engine, shattering the glass window.
The incident occurred on Palisades Avenue Friday night as the truck was responding to a burning smell at a nearby store.
A group of six to seven teenagers reportedly fled the scene shortly after the bottle was thrown.
As CBS 2’s Hazel Sanchez reported, someone threw a bottle through one of the windows of the fire truck while it raced to an emergency this past Friday night. Sanchez talked to the victim – Garfield, N.J. volunteer firefighter Victoria Kovacs, 22.
“It just was like a big bang, and then there was glass everywhere,” she said.
Three nights after the attack, Kovacs has been forced to wear sunglasses around the clock – dulling the pain after the frightening attack nearly blinded her.
“I was sitting over here in the second seat, right across diagonal from this second seat, and we went through the intersection at Monroe near Commerce Street when something hit the window and it shattered,” Kovacs said. “I didn’t know what to think. I didn’t know if we had hit something, if somebody was throwing something at us, if somebody had shot the window.”
