Man steals paramedics’ ambulance, then chases them around Best Buy lot, CA cops say

Two firefighters parked in a San Francisco parking lot got a scare when a man began breaking out their ambulance’s windows with a piece of wood, California police reported.

But that wasn’t the half of it.

After the paramedics jumped out, the attacker stole the ambulance and began driving laps around the Best Buy parking lot and trying to hit them, a Twitter post by police said.

He eventually abandoned the ambulance in the back of the parking lot and escaped by climbing a fence, police said. The firefighters were not hurt in the 6:50 a.m. incident Monday, Aug. 29.

The 8-year-old ambulance is out of service with thousands of dollars in damage, the San Francisco Fire Department reported on Twitter.

“From what it sounds like, this was just random,” Tim Finch, a San Francisco Fire Union 798 director, told KGO.

The union said on Twitter the two firefighters were “shaken up” but otherwise unhurt.

“This is upsetting when it happens to our residents, visitors and city staff,” Mayor London Breed said in a statement, KGO reported. She said the city is taking the incident seriously and thanked police for investigating.

This story was originally published August 30, 2022 at 2:44 PM with the headline "Man steals paramedics’ ambulance, then chases them around Best Buy lot, CA cops say."