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ER patient steals ambulance from Sentara Norfolk General Hospital: Official

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Ambulance located after ER patient steals it from Norfolk hospital: Officials

Julia Varnier

Ambulance located after ER patient steals it Sentara Norfolk General Hospital: Police

A patient has reportedly stolen an ambulance from Sentara Norfolk General Hospital.

The person who stole the ambulance did not arrive to the hospital in it, rather he was in the ER, according to Dale Gauding, a senior communications adviser at Sentara.

Gauding said it is his understanding that the patient ran out of the ER, hopped into the ambulance in the parking lot and took off.

No one was hurt and the hospital is not on lock down, according to Gauding.

Police are searching for the ambulance and the patient.

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