TOWN OF POUGHKEEPSIE – Firefighters rescued a critically injured child from a dangerous situation Saturday night near Morgan Lake on Creek Road near the Town/City of Poughkeepsie line just after 6 p.m. Once the child was transported by ambulance to a local hospital, a standoff continued with a person who was believed to be armed with a knife, according to witnesses at the scene.
The initial dispatch to the Arlington Fire Department was for a six-year-old child who was bleeding and in pain at 16 Creek Road in Poughkeepsie.
The incident began in the area of 16 Creek Road and the road was closed to through traffic for at least an hour as Arlington FD, Empress EMS, and Town of Poughkeepsie police remained in the area of the standoff, including a deployed drone overhead.
Witnesses have told Mid-Hudson News that when Arlington firefighters responded, they went into the residence and found a young child suffering from apparent stab wounds. Firefighters picked the child up and escaped the residence, climbed aboard an ambulance, and rushed the child to the hospital.
Additional fire and EMS units responded to the scene to operate with the Town of Poughkeepsie police as they dealt with a barricaded subject.
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