PHOTOS: A 34-year-old Colorado man recovering in a hospital will be charged with arson and attempted murder once doctors conclude treatment and hand him over to authorities.
The yet-unidentified man was taken into custody Friday afternoon after firing a round from a handgun into the windshield of an ambulance.
The trajectory of the bullet was altered and the three people inside the Falck Rocky Mountain ambulance were not injured.
"I've been a paramedic for 30 years," Falck Regional Managing Director David Patterson said Saturday, "and the level of 'close call' here is remarkable....(It was) the nearest of misses."
At the time of the gunshot, the ambulance was in motion, pulling up to the scene of a house fire with residents standing nearby, Patterson said.