FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A family was grieving on Monday after a 23-year-old woman who worked as an emergency medical technician died while trying to help a crash victim on Sunday on Interstate 95 in Broward County.
Yanaisa Pulido had completed the Hialeah Fire Cadet program in 2019, finished EMT training and Fire Academy training, according to Dayami Apaulaza, who described her as a hero.
“She was also a hard worker and worked as an EMT at Miami Dade Ambulance while she was going to school. Everyone who met her was a better person for it,” Apaulaza wrote on a GoFundMe page.
Three others were injured during the multi-vehicle crash just after 4 a.m., on Sunday, on the I-95 southbound lanes, north of State Road 84, in Fort Lauderdale.
The driver of a 2019 red Kia Forte struck a concrete median before coming to a stop in the middle of the highway and blocking two center lanes, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
The driver of a black Mercedes 2015 GLA250 struck the Kia. The 41-year-old driver of a 2015 silver Cadillac slowed down, but the 19-year-old driver of a 2023 black Lexus IS300 couldn’t stop on time and crashed into the Cadillac — which then struck the woman, according to FHP.
The driver of a 2016 black Ford Explorer crashed into the Kia, the concrete barrier, and then the Cadillac, according to FHP.
Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue found the woman dead at the scene and took the injured to Broward Health Medical Center.
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