TAMPA \u2014 Tampa police say a 59-year-old man stole a fire engine Tuesday morning and crashed it into another vehicle before being caught and taken into custody.<\/p>\n
It happened shortly before 9:30 a.m. while firefighters were inside St. Joseph’s Hospital on Dr Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard, according to officials.<\/p>\n
Police say Warren Scudder got into the fire truck, drove away and hit a Lexus SUV near MacDill Avenue.<\/p>\n
The driver of the SUV reported hip pain after the crash and was checked out by hospital staff, investigators said.<\/p>\n
Shortly before 9:40 p.m., police located the fire engine and blocked its path on Poplar Avenue.<\/p>\n
Scudder was charged with grand theft auto and hit and run. Additional charges may be filed, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA \u2014 Tampa police say a 59-year-old man stole a fire engine Tuesday morning and crashed it into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2967,274,265,276,115,277,275,12335,135,137,136,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-14066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-app-public-safety","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-hillsborough-county","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-public-safety","14":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","15":"tag-strange","16":"tag-tampa","17":"tag-tampa-headlines","18":"tag-tampa-news","19":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}