LISTEN: Webster firefighter emergency call

LISTEN: Webster firefighter emergency call

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Two firefighters â€" Lt. Mike Chiapperini and Tomasz Kacowka â€" died when William Spengler, 62, opened fire on responders after he started a housefire in Webster, New York, Monday.

In a harrowing call to emergency dispatchers in the moments after William Spengler had lured them into what police say was a “trap,” volunteer firefighters from Webster, NY painted an all too familiar picture of a nation in which mass shootings have become commonplace.

"We are being shot at, multiple firemen down,” a firefighter who identified himself as “125” told a dispatcher. “Multiple fireman shot. I am shot. I think it was an assault rifle. We have multiple fireman down. "

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The 911 tapes were made public by PhillyFireNews.com in what the group said was an effort to “show the true bravery of the firefighter who was shot and pinned down due to the gunfire.”

On the tape, the firefighter describes seeing two of his colleagues lying motionless in the middle of the street near the shores of Lake Ontario.

“Be advised I believe the two victims that are with me have not moved since they’ve been struck. They’ve been laying in the roadway motionless since.”

IN APPARENT AMBUSH, WILLIAM SPENGLER, 62, ALLEGEDLY GUNS DOWN FOUR VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS, KILLING TWO WHILE CREW BATTLES WEBSTER, N.Y., CHRISTMAS EVE HOUSE BLAZE

Two firefighters â€" Lt. Mike Chiapperini and Tomasz Kacowka â€" died when William Spengler, 62, opened fire with what eyewitnesses described as either an assault rifle or a hunting rifle when their trucks approached the scene of the blaze.

Firefighters Theodore Scardino and Joseph Hofsetter were also shot as they approached in their trucks, and have both been hospitalized.

“I am in the danger zone right now,” the officer on the call says. “I need immediate EMI or I’ll be joining them.”

Shot in the lower back and in the leg, the firefighter repeatedly asks for information on whether police have arrived at the scene yet, and tells the dispatcher he is “considering making an escape to the west, any idea if that’s a good idea?”

Spengler, who found dead due to a self-inflicted gunshot wound, had served 17 years behind bars for killing his grandmother with a hammer.

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