Ambulance Vehicle on Fire near Osijek, Crew Safe [video]

August 8, 2022 - On Sunday, August 7, an ambulance vehicle of the Vukovar Public Health Institute caught on fire on the Bršadin-Pačetin road near the village of Bobota. The crew managed to escape, saving over HRK100,000 worth of medical equipment. Thankfully, tere were no patients in the vehicle.

As RTL reports, on the Hitna Uživo 194 (Ambulance Live 194) Facebook page, they published a dramatic video of an ambulance engulfed in flames with explosions. On the video, you can hear: “Run, run, f*** it, it's not a joke!”.

The original video of the incident 

On the page they posted: “ZZHM (Instititute of Emergency Medicine) VUKOVAR-SRIJEM COUNTY! Returning from an intervention. An ambulance vehicle over 10 years old. They said it was in a good condition. So, gentlemen from the Government of the Republic of Croatia, how are your Audis doing? All going well? Thank God, they all saved themselves at the last minute. The media is free to use the link to the video”.

The video shows a burning vehicle, as well as explosions on the road near a corn field. Multiple items from the vehicle were thrown by the side of the road.

The firefighters of the Public Fire Department Vukovar confirmed that everything happened last night: “The accident happened last night and the fire was localized”. It occured around 20:30 on the Bršadin – Pačetin road.

RTL have unofficially learned that last night's drama took place on the road between Vukovar and Osijek near the village of Bobota. Allegedly, no patients were in the vehicle, and the vehicle in question was an ambulance.

The firefighters also posted a video on the Facebook page Vatrogasci 193 (Firefighters 193) of extinguishing the fire, which seems to have started to spread to the surrounding vegetation.

The Firefighters' Facebook video

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