A heart attack patient was killed Thursday when a fire truck crashed into the ambulance that was carrying him to a Brooklyn hospital, authorities said. The crash at Myrtle and Throop avenues in Bedford-Stuyvesant, involved two Fire Department vehicles happened shortly before 1:00AM. The fire truck was racing to a fire when it broadsided the ambulance, authorities said. The patient in the ambulance, a 59-year-old man who had suffered a heart attack, was pronounced dead at the hospital he was being taken to, police said. A female family member who was traveling with the patient was in critical condition at the hospital. A Fire Department spokesperson said six firefighters and two Emergency Medical Service workers were hospitalized in stable condition. The crash is under investigation. (AP)

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