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The Extrication You Just Came From.
I was scrolling through this topic and could not find a place to post, so I’m startin one, this is for that call you were just on, lets here about it!
I changed the title, from call to extrication, just to clarify what I was looking for since I started this in the rescue category.
I changed the title, from call to extrication, just to clarify what I was looking for since I started this in the rescue category.
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Permalink Reply by Bill on
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Toned out as a confirmed structure fire, soon as we get ready to roll the disreguard us because it's a "controlled burn" We went and checked it out anyway, and some people had tore their house down, and was burning the big pile lol
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Permalink Reply by Trainer on
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Ok, I started this cause we just had an unusual one, so if I get this typed in time, I’ll be first.
We had black Ice last night, and with a high speed interstate, well you know. Dispatch had that voice; you all know it, 10-50 rollover, entrapment, vehicle smoking, not good. We get their and although it’s not smoking, it looks bad. Lost control, hit a tree, about 1ft in diameter, ripped it out and ended up on its side, almost folded in half, sideways. I’ve seen a lot of stuff in my years but this tree impacted right behind the drivers seat and ended up in the middle of the car, Chevy Lumina I believe, on its side tree top out the top, stump with roots out the bottom.
Stabilized, patient was alive and not to bad, she was on the bottom, and buckled. Our best avenue was to open top, this was a challenge as we could not find the B post, and did I mention the gas tank was leaking, pretty much eliminated the sazall. Cut what we could and ripped the top back with the spreaders. Page to extrication, 40 min. Anyways she was treated and released, very very lucky, 6 inches and…. You know you got a weird one when the tow truck driver says he’s never seen that. Cut the tree so he could load it.
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Permalink Reply by John on
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A medic assist and the engine crew didn't even leave the cab, medics had it all under control.
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Although I like to here all, this discussion is in the rescue and extraction category, there are other places for the general calls….Stay Safe!
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Permalink Reply by Royce Terry on
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1 Car MVA, Car Into Pond, 3 People Out Of The Vehicle, Unknown Personal Injury
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Permalink Reply by Matt on
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Toned out as a single vehicle MVC, into the ditch, driver trapped, at an intersection not too far from my house. I respond POV to the hall to pick up one of our rescues and have to drive by the intersection on my way there. As I drive by, there's no vehicles in the ditch, no vehicles anywhere.
I grab the rescue and call myself as responding, and request further info as to the location of this because there are no vehicles anywhere in the vicinity. By this time, I'm running code 4 (lights and sirens) with an ambulance running code 4 right behind me. We've got myself in the rescue, the ambulance, one of our pumpers and a couple of POVs looking for this MVC. I finally pull off with the ambulance and we chat for a minute before deciding to go back and check out a van that looked like it had been there for a while and been plowed in.
As we go back, I pass our pumper, both of us going lights and sirens, both of us going in opposite directions, and our air ambulance is circling the area looking for the collision as well. Finally, we get an update from the Provincial Police that the vehicle is actually east of our response area, in the response area of the city. I request dispatch to inform the city dept. that this is actually their call, and to start their closest truck as only police are on scene at this point.
I finally arrive on-scene about 15 minutes after leaving the hall, to find a van had slid across the ditch and stopped on a plowed in driveway, and had subsequently been plowed in by the snowplow. No injuries, no entrapment...But we did roll 4 rescues, 2 pumpers, and had aid from 2 cruisers, 1 land ambulance, and 1 air ambulance...oh well, at least we had the help if we needed it!
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Permalink Reply by Joe Stoltz on
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Toned out for a car in a ditch, driver complaining of shoulder pain. Scene was on a hill with road covered with glare ice. Actually, most of the town roads were glare ice. A steady rainfall made bad footing even worse and traction non-existent.
I wound up sliding down hill several times but not falling, thankfully. Driver was stable so I staged apparatus at the bottom of the hill until a sander could go through and improve traction. Very little damage to the car; the big thing was making the scene safe and the road passable for emergency vehicles. Everyone wore their new vests.
I love studded snow tires.
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Permalink Reply by Denise Co 29 on
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Chimney Fire yesterday
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Man don’t you just love cell phones. We had almost the same thing some time back, car under semi, entrapment, semi on fire. 9 police, 3 rigs, 3 POV, all covered 20 miles twice and found nothing, or the one we looked all over for and turned out to be same mile marker 40 miles away on a different interstate
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Toned out for person down in a ditch, possible snowmobile accident. Location given was wrong, approx 1km up the cross street...turned out to be a person with snowmobile trouble.
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Matt, since I’m a long time snowmobiler, have not had one in a few years, got to pricey; we use to go up north every year, well Wisconsin north, and am just wondering how many of this type of call do you run? Knowing the hazards involved and the locations (wink) where they stop got to be a bunch. We were fortunate to not have anyone seriously hurt, and their was about 15 of us, we had our share of mishaps, even back then we were going in excess of 100mph, lucky no one got killed.
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Permalink Reply by Dan Stevens on
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Single vehical MVI 10 KM's west of our town, unknown entrapment as noted by dispatch. Car was down a 30' embankment making it hard to locate, drove past the vehical twice before spotting the car on the third pass. 2 occupants confirmed trapped when we arrived on scene. BCAS was right behind us as was RCMP. We had cut the roof off sniped a door and extricated both patients, they were then brought to KGH (Kamloops Gerneral Hospital) page out to extrication 20 minutes.
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