A veterinarian died after snow clogged up the exhaust of the mobile clinic where he was working in Queens Sunday, police and law-enforcement sources said.
Cops responded to a 911 call for an unconscious person at 157-18 65th Avenue in Kew Gardens Hills around 9:25 a.m., police said.
The vet, a 57-year-old man, was found unconscious and unresponsive by the officers, as was a 73-year-old man, believed to be the owner of the van operating as a clinic, according to cops and sources.
EMS pronounced the veterinarian dead, while the older man was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Queens Hospital in stable condition, according to authorities.
An investigation was ongoing. The office of the chief medical examiner will determine the vet’s cause of death, police said.
— Additional reporting by Joe Marino