An accused drunken driver was in police custody after barreling head-on into an FDNY ladder truck on a Queens street early Sunday. Jimmy Lealecheverria, 41, crashed a van into a Ladder Co.
Union officials said ladder and engine companies in the Manhattan congestion zone are typically among the most short-handed and in need of transfers to fill in. “You’re altering their [FDNY ...
according to the FDNY. The cause of the fire is not immediately known. A video posted to Citizen shows fire trucks lining Third Avenue, one with a ladder outstretched to the top of the building.