(Colfax, ND) – An ambulance is a total loss after starting on fire on I-29 in Richland County just after 9 p.m. Saturday night.
According to the North Dakota Highway Patrol, a Day County (SD) Ambulance Service ambulance was northbound on I-29 when it caught fire in lane one. The driver of the ambulance came to stop in lane one and assisted the other EMT in removing a patient from the rear of the ambulance.
The driver has been identified as 71-year-old David Dulitz of Webster, SD.
Both EMT’s and the patient they were transporting were able to safely get away from the ambulance. The ambulance caused northbound I-29 to be closed for approximately 45 minutes while the fire was put out.
The patient being transported was transferred into the care of a Breckenridge-Wahpeton Ambulance and transferred to Sanford Hospital in Fargo.
The name of the patient and second EMT won’t be released.
