A Burke County (N.C.) Emergency Medical Services crew was transporting the patient from a hospital in Morganton to one in Asheville. The ambulance was traveling down a major interstate when a catastrophic transmission failure occurred, causing the vehicle to catch on fire.
All passengers exited the vehicle uninjured, and the patient waited in a family member’s car — who’d been following the ambulance — until a new ambulance arrived at the scene to complete the patient transfer.
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