EMT Locks Keys In Ambulance With Patient Inside In Montclair

An EMT for a private medical transport company locked his keys in the ambulance with a patient inside while parked on Bloomfield Avenue on Monday afternoon.

Montclair Fire Chief John Herrmann told Patch that the incident took place around 3 p.m., when a medical transport worker was escorting a patient from a local doctor’s office to the waiting ambulance outside.

“When he was putting her inside, he must have closed the door and realized that he left his keys in the car,” Herrmann said.

Firefighters were able to use a lockout tool to unlatch the vehicle’s door within 10 minutes of arriving on the scene, the fire chief told Patch.

Herrmann said that apart from being briefly exposed to the non-air conditioned interior of the ambulance and some trepidation from being locked inside, the patient was unharmed in the incident.

The fire chief declined to name the medical transport company, but said that it wasn’t a Montclair Ambulance Unit vehicle.

Montclair Ambulance Unit Chief James Simpson confirmed that the driver or company has no affiliation with the MAU.