An ambulance taking a stroke victim to a hospital was hit by another vehicle, prompting two more people to be hospitalized.

Authorities say a woman asked the emergency responders for a ride and told her they couldn't, moments later the ambulance was stolen and surveillance videos caught her driving away with it.

The collision resulted in one fatality.

Firefighters said it took 20 minutes until the medics were extricated from their ambulance after crashing into a restaurant.

Sources within the Houston Fire Department said that a cardiac arrest patient waited 29 minutes for an ambulance to arrive, while firefighters on the scene administered CPR.

Houston police said two people, including a firefighter, were taken to the hospital after a crash involving an ambulance in west Houston.

A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers is calling on the Biden administration to establish field hospitals near Ukraine’s border and ramp up medical support for what’s expected to be a monthslong war of attrition waged by Russia.

They are the gold standard metric to measure a fire department’s effectiveness at responding quickly to emergencies, but HFD is headed in the wrong direction.

In 2016, an independent study commissioned by the city of Houston called for 70 “peak time” ambulances to be added to the Houston Fire Department in order to effectively serve the city’s population.

Houston police have a man in custody after they said he hijacked an ambulance at gunpoint Friday with a patient and emergency medical technician inside.