Traumatic Incident After Man Run Over By Dump Truck

Tuesday June 3, 2014 at 1233 hours, the Huntingtown Volunteers were alerted to Pushaw Station Road for the pedestrian struck. The Deputy Fire Chief (Clark), Deputy Rescue Chief (Miller), Paramedic Ambulance 69 (Bento), Paramedic Rescue Squad 6 (Lt A. Jeffery) & Engine 62 (Thrasher) responded on the call with 14 volunteers. While responding, Communications relayed supplemental information that a male had been run over by a dump truck with serious lower extremity injuries as well as a second patient involved. The Huntingtown Volunteers arrived on location and found a 29 year old male that had been backed over by an over-sized off-road dump truck. As a result he had been crushed from the waist down, mangling & degloving his lower extremities as well as bi-lateral compound femur fractures. The crew from the Rescue Squad (paramedic equipped) & Ambulance 69 (also paramedic equipped), treated the patient on the scene until the arrival of Trooper 6. Engine 62 handled the Landing Zone, as he was air-lifted to a nearby trauma center. A second patient on the scene, suffering from a minor head injury was transported by Ambulance 59 to Calvert Memorial Hospital. Units from the Huntingtown VFD cleared the scene at 1310 hours.