{"id":288664,"date":"2026-05-29T09:38:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T09:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/288664\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T09:38:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T09:38:30","slug":"ambulance-driver-paramedic-hurt-in-i-275-collision-st-petersburg-florida-firefighter-close-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/288664\/","title":{"rendered":"AMBULANCE DRIVER, PARAMEDIC HURT IN I-275 COLLISION &#8211; ST. PETERSBURG , FLORIDA | Firefighter Close Calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An ambulance driver and paramedic were injured this afternoon when the ambulance they were in collided with a flatbed truck, fire officials said. <br \/>St. Petersburg Fire and Rescue crews covered a crash on I-275 northbound just south of Roosevelt Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p>The crash involved a SunStar Ambulance which was heading to an emergency when it was hit in the rear by a flat bed truck.  The ambulance was switching lanes when the truck\u2019s driver hit it.<\/p>\n<p>The impact caused the ambulance to spin into the median after hitting the guard rail.<\/p>\n<p>The ambulance driver and passenger were transported to the hospital but were not carrying a patient at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The truck driver was not injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An ambulance driver and paramedic were injured this afternoon when the ambulance they were in collided with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-288664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288664","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=288664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}