Firefighters worked Saturday afternoon to free two people from a two-vehicle crash in Chinatown at the end of a Los Angeles Police Department pursuit.
The crash was reported at 4:52 p.m. Saturday at 1220 N. Spring St., next to Los Angeles State Historic Park, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department’s Nicholas Prange.
Paramedics were tending to six patients in all, and firefighters were using hydraulic tools to try to free two of them from the wreckage, Prange said.
Three of the patients had been in a gray BMW that police were chasing, LAPD Officer J. Chaves told City News Service.
The pursuit began at 4:46 p.m. at Soto Street and Michigan Avenue after police received a call regarding a man with a gun, Chaves said. It ended with a crash into a car, sending the other car careening into a wall.
It was unclear which vehicle or vehicles the trapped patients were in.