Fatality at East Brentwood MVA

The East Brentwood Fire Department responded to an MVAwith reported entrapment at Suffolk Avenue and Fulton Street about 0430 on February 24, 2023. Chief of Department Vasquez, Squad 33-5 and Ambulance 3-3-8 responded and found a sedan had collided with a Town of Islip Sanitation truck head-on trapping the passengerof the sedan. The crew from 3-3-5 and Suffolk County Police ESU used multiple extrication tools to remove the passengerin about 20 minutes. The three occupants of the sedan were taken to

South Shore University Hospital. The trapped passengerwas pronounced dead at the scene. The driverof the sedan had serious injuries and was latercharged with DWI, the back seat passenger suffered minorinjuries. The occupants of the sanitation truck were uninjured. Ambulances from Exchange Ambulance of the Islips and Central Islip-Hauppauge Ambulance were requested to the scene to help transport the injured.