| Saturday May 27, 2012 at 1151 hours, units from the Huntingtown VFD & Dunkirk VFD were alerted for the serious auto accident with a vehicle on fire on Route 2 in the vicinity of the Park & Ride. As the call was being dispatched, The Fire Chief (Riffe) arrived on location and found a 2 vehicle head-on collision with one vehicle on fire with 3 patients still in the vehicle and unconscious. Chief 6 assisted 5-6 bystanders with removing the 3 males from the burning vehicle. 2 of the patients were not breathing and bystander CPR was begun. The third male was in and out of consciousness. Upon assessment of the 2nd vehicle a female driver was found in and out of consciousness asking for her baby. Chief 6 and another bystander began frantically rummaging through the back seat and found an 8 year girl also in and out of consciousness.
The incident quickly escalated resulting in additional apparatus being dispatched to the scene, bringing over 40 emergency responders to the scene. Ultimately, the fire was quickly knocked down and additional personnel assisted with the 5 priority 1 patients. The two patients that had CPR performed on them were miraculously revived. All 5 patients were flown to 3 different trauma centers via Trooper 2, Trooper 7 and Eagle 1. Units from the Huntingtown VFD remained on the scene 1313 hours.
Command: Chief 6; Operations: Chief 6B; EMS Sector: Chief 5A
Units on scene:
Huntingtown VFD Fire Chief 6, Deputy Fire Chief (Morris), Deputy EMS Chief (Borden), Safety Officer 6 (McKenny), Captain Clark, Engine 61 (Stewart, S), Engine 62 (Stewart, H), Squad 6 (Montgomery Jr), Tanker 6 (Deale), Ambulance 68 (Sergeant Fitzgerald) and Ambulance 69 (Osbourn).
Dunkirk VFD: Chief 5A, Chief 5B, Safety Officer 5, Engine 51, Squad 5, Ambulance 58 and Ambulance 59.
North Beach VFD: Chief 1, Chief 1B, Ambulance 19
Calvert Advanced Life Support: Medic 101, Medic 103, Medic 105 and several other Medics that showed up in their personal vehicle to assist.
Audio of the incident: http://www.scanmd.org/public/audio/audioView.cfm?Audio_ID=273
Pictures courtesy of member Dennis Hook: www.DennisHook.smugmug.com |
