Man lying in street killed by fire truck

A mandied after he was run over by a Winnipeg Fire Department truck on its way to a pre-dawn emergency call, police said Sunday.

Police said the man, who was in his late40s,was lying on Redwood Avenue in the city's North Endfor an unknown reason when he was struck at about 4:15 a.m. He was alive before he was hit, police said.

'We really have two victims here.' Const. Robert Carver, Winnipeg police

His name has not been released as police notify the man's family of the death.

Const. Robert Carver said the fire truck's lights and sirens were on at the time the man was struck.The manwas rushed to hospital but later pronounced dead.

Moments prior to the collision,a car in front of the fire truck pulled over to let the emergency vehicle pass, Carver said.

"When it pulled over, the fire truck proceeded to pass it. There was an object in the roadway. It struck the object. It turned out the object was in fact a male lying in the roadway," he told reporters.

The firefighter driving the truck slammed on the brakes but was unable to stop, Carver said.

"We really have two victims here because the driver of this fire truck is going to have to deal with the trauma of having struck someone nothing he could have done, obviously," he said.

Redwood remained closed between Andrews Street and Salter Street on Sunday afternoon.