On Tuesday February 1, 2005 at 1740 hours, Company 6 (Huntingtown) and Engine 151 Navy Base), were alerted for the auto accident involving a telephone pole in front of 695 Ponds Wood Road. Chief 6 (Osbourn), Chief 6C (Spriggs; as the Medic), Squad 6 (Chief 6A, Riffe) and Ambulance 69 (EMT Crouch) arrived on location to find a single-vehicle that had struck a telephone pole, dropping electrical lines, traveled 300 feet and clipping a tree before coming to rest. Chief 6 established command while units found a single-patient in the driver's seat, unconscious and not breathing with severe multi-traumautic injuries. The helicopter was requested but later cancelled. The patient was rapidly extricated from the vehicle and loaded onto the stretcher, where CPR was began. The patient was transported to Calvert Memorial Hospital priority one. The crew from Squad 6 stood-by on the scene until the arrival of SMECO and the Accident Reconstruction Team (1856 hours). Sadly, the patient succumbed to his injuries
Side note: The officers and members of the Huntingtown Volunteer Fire Department send our thoughts and prayers out to the family of the victim. Two members of our department were cousins with the victim.
