Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The plaintiff Nassau County Police Officer responded to an accident on the Long Island Expressway and parked his patrol car on the highway to block a disabled vehicle from oncoming traffic. As he sat in the patrol car, it was struck by a truck operated by the defendant Karl W. Glandorf, who later pleaded guilty, inter alia, to a charge of driving while intoxicated. The defendants moved for summary judgment dismissing the complaint on the ground that the plaintiffs' common-law negligence action was barred by the "fireman's rule" (see, Santangelo v State of New York, 71 N.Y.2d 393). We find that the motion was properly denied, as the officer's services were sufficiently separate and apart from the negligent acts which caused his injuries (see, Boglioli v Fletcher, 170 A.D.2d 425; Murphy v Creative Foods Corp., 170 A.D.2d 441; Sharkey v Mitchell's Newspaper Delivery, 165 A.D.2d 664; Starkey v Trancamp Contr. Corp., 152 A.D.2d 358).
We need not reach the defendants' contention that General Municipal Law § 205-e does not apply to the plaintiffs' action since the plaintiffs have not sought to amend their complaint to assert a cause of action under this statute. Nevertheless, we note that the statute was amended to expressly provide for its application to actions pending on January 1, 1987 (L 1990, ch 762). Kunzeman, J.P., Kooper, Harwood and O'Brien, JJ., concur.