Firefighter Injured in FDNY Tower Ladder Crash

Tower ladder veered into a row or parked cars. (CBS New York)

BROWNSVILLE, Brooklyn (WABC) – A firefighter is expected to survive after an FDNY fire truck jumped a curb and slammed into parked vehicles in Brooklyn.

The accident happened just after 6 p.m. Wednesday at East New York Avenue and St. Marks Avenue in Brownsville.

Sources say the truck had been stopped at a traffic light on East New York Avenue when the driver suffered some sort of seizure.

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