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Lower Merion Entrapment
October
11,
2003
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Date of Incident: October 11, 2004
Location of Incident: Route I-76 (Schuylkill Expressway)
mile marker
338.5 westbound, Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County,
Pennsylvania
Incident synopsis:
At 3:39am, Station 22 (Belmont Hills), Squad 21 (Penn
Wynne), Station
39 (George Clay) and Medic 313 (Narberth Ambulance) were
dispatched to mile marker 338.5 on Route I-76 (Schuylkill
Expressway) for a vehicle accident with entrapment. Squad 22
arrived on location and reported a car under a tractor
trailer with heavy entrapment. Crews worked together to help
extricate a female victim by stabilizing and lifting the
tractor trailer with numerous sets of cribbing and air bags,
and extricating the victim with hydraulic tools. 22-52
(Vince
Fusaro) notified County at 4:40am that the rescue was
complete.
PennStar landed in the westbound lanes of I-76 and
transported the patient to the Hospital of the University of
Pennsylvania (HUP), class 2. Crews made themselves available
at 5:48am. For more info, see the Recent News section on
pennwynnefire.org
Photos: DCP_0266.jpg and DCP_0268.jpg are from Penn Wynne
Fire Company
(pennwynnefire.org).
All other pictures are from Dave Frankenfield Jr. from
George Clay Fire Company.
Departments involved: Belmont Hills Fire Company, Penn Wynne
Fire Company, George Clay Fire Company, and Narberth
Ambulance
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