{"id":119334,"date":"2026-02-01T23:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T23:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/119334\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T23:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T23:00:08","slug":"nyc-veterinarian-found-dead-after-snow-clogs-exhaust-of-mobile-clinic-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/119334\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC veterinarian found dead after snow clogs exhaust of mobile clinic: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A veterinarian died after snow clogged up the exhaust of the mobile clinic where he was working in Queens Sunday, police and law-enforcement sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Cops responded to a 911 call for an unconscious person at 157-18 65th Avenue in Kew Gardens Hills around 9:25 a.m., police said.<\/p>\n<p>The vet, a 57-year-old man, was found unconscious and unresponsive by the officers, as was a 73-year-old man, believed to be the owner of the van operating as a clinic, according to cops and sources.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38356368\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/veterinarian-died-snow-clogged-exhaust-120209398.jpg\" alt=\"A mobile veterinarian clinic van parked on a street in front of an apartment building.\" class=\"wp-image-38356368\"  \/>A view of the scene of where a veterinarian died in Queens after snow clogged the exhaust of his mobile clinic on Sunday. Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>EMS pronounced the veterinarian dead, while the older man was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Queens Hospital in stable condition, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation was ongoing. The office of the chief medical examiner will determine the vet\u2019s cause of death, police said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Additional reporting by Joe Marino<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A veterinarian died after snow clogged up the exhaust of the mobile clinic where he was working in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1015,318,5019,57,9,56,63,65,64,122,8555,58],"class_list":["post-119334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-deaths","tag-freak-accidents","tag-kew-gardens","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-queens","tag-snow","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}