An ambulance was stolen in San Francisco's Sunset District Monday evening, before being chased by law enforcement through San Mateo and Alameda counties, officials say. Ultimately the ambulance was found abandoned in Oakland.
San Francisco Fire Department said they were responding to a medical emergency at 47th Avenue and Irving Street at around 6:14 p.m. They said paramedics were in the process of loading a patient into the ambulance when the vehicle was stolen.
San Francisco Police Department said a Taraval unit tried to stop the ambulance on 19th Avenue before it took to Interstate 280. "Several CHP units took over on the freeway," SFPD Capt. Raj Vaswani said on social media. pursued the stolen vehicle down the Peninsula before crossing over to the East Bay.
CHP said they had located the ambulance in the Daly City area before the pursuit took them to the East Bay. CHP Oakland, Castro Valley and Hayward were all involved in the pursuit, CHP officials said.
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