Accident with Entrapment in Huntingtown

 
By Chief Jonathan Riffe
November 18, 2008
 

Tuesday November 18, 2008, the Huntingtown VFD was busy during the daytime responding to a basement fire, three auto accidents, an electrical fire, propane leak, and several medicals. At 1637 hours, Chief 6 (Riffe), Lieutenant 6 (Thrasher), Squad 6 (Sgt Morris), Engine 62 (Capt Mckenny), and Ambulance 68 (Fitzgerald) were alerted for the auto accident with entrapment at Route 4 & Guido Liquors. Units arrived to find a single-vehicle off the roadway with the driver in & out of consciousness. Crews went to work removing the single patient through the passenger's side door and loaded into Ambulance 68. Engine 62 handled the Landing Zone, as the passenger was flown to PG Shock Trauma.