{"id":812241,"date":"2026-05-21T13:07:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/812241\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T13:07:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:07:17","slug":"nyc-ambulance-hit-by-gunfire-as-emts-help-teen-shot-in-the-bronx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/812241\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC ambulance hit by gunfire as EMTs help teen shot in the Bronx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two EMTs were nearly killed helping a teenager who had been shot in the Bronx when their ambulance was struck by gunfire, according to police and fire officials.<\/p>\n<p>Police and FDNY EMS responded to a reported shooting at the Butler Houses on Webster Avenue in Claremont and found an 18-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the abdomen around 12:15 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>While at the scene, an FDNY ambulance was shot at and suffered damages to rear and front windshields, according to officials and images from the scene.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39445001\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/police-scene-fdny-ambulance-struck-128375972.jpg\" alt=\"A police officer inspects an ambulance with a bullet hole in its windshield.\" class=\"wp-image-39445001\"  \/>Police at the scene where an FDNY ambulance was struck by a bullet, narrowly avoiding an EMT sitting in the passenger seat on Webster Avenue near E170th Street in the Bronx, NY around 12:15 a.m. on May 21, 2026. Christopher Sadowski for NY Post<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39445096\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/police-scene-fdny-ambulance-struck-128376330.jpg\" alt=\"Police at the scene where an FDNY ambulance was struck by a bullet that traveled through the entire ambulance.\" class=\"wp-image-39445096\"  \/>Police investigate the shooting, as a bullet hole is seen in the back of the ambulance. Christopher Sadowski for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>Two FDNY EMTs were inside the parked ambulance at the time but were miraculously not struck, <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/ambulance-responding-help-shooting-victim-claremont-bronx-struck-gunfire\/19142657\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ABC 7 reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Both were taken to a local hospital with non-serious injuries for evaluation, police and fire officials said. <\/p>\n<p>No other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old shooting victim was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two EMTs were nearly killed helping a teenager who had been shot in the Bronx when their ambulance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":812242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[227444,5229,298682,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,3677,5305,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":["post-812241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-ambulances","tag-america","tag-emts","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-shootings","tag-the-bronx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-news","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116612723608028453","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}