Man who stole a Miami-Dade fire truck sets off three-county highway chase, police say

A Miami-Dade fire truck heading north on the highway wasn't heading to an emergency. It was the emergency. Police say the yellow truck was stolen a...

May 19, 2023
9:33 AM

A Miami-Dade fire truck heading north on the highway wasn't heading to an emergency. It was the emergency. Police say the yellow truck was stolen arond 6:30 p.m. Thursday from a training exercise at Northeast 166th Street and Seventh Avenue in North Miami Beach. The driver hit a parked Opa-locka police car about two miles away, police said, before heading north on Interstate 95. That's where officers spotted the fire truck and pursued. The truck then went onto Florida's Turnpike and continued north through Broward and into Palm Beach County.

Jeff Kleinman