Two Detroit Fire Department vehicles were in crashes Sunday on the city's east side.
One was involved in a routine car crash early in the morning; the other crashed after being stolen.
At about 2:08 p.m. Sunday, a 31-year-old male suspect entered a Detroit Fire Department facility at Russell and Wilkins, according to the Detroit Police Department.
The suspect got control of an advanced life support ambulance, and "drove the rig through the door," said Dave Fornell, deputy commissioner of the Detroit Fire Department, damaging the door, and making off with a "$250,000 piece of equipment." Fire Department staff was in a different area of the building, Fornell said.
The suspect then got onto northbound Interstate 75, traveling at a "high rate of speed" before crashing on its side in near Eight Mile.