Photo by Bill Carson
On Nov. 16, the Tri-Community Volunteer Fire Department and paramedics with Hamilton County EMS were dispatched to an accident with injuries and entrapment. When the first fire unit arrived on the scene, they immediately reported a head-on collision with multiple entrapments and multiple critical injuries. Firefighters quickly requested the Life Force helicopter be dispatched to the scene. Within seconds, Hamilton County paramedics arrived and started treating the injured patients.
Within minutes, several additional fire crews arrived on the scene and started assisting with the extrication operations. Crews were able to spread the driver’s door of one pickup truck and free the injured man inside. That man and a 9-year-old boy who was also in the pickup truck were rushed by ambulance to the Life Force helicopter that landed about a mile away and flown to Erlanger Medical Center.
Meanwhile, firefighters began extricating the 19-year-old woman from the other car involved in the collision. Rescuers had to strategically cut and flap the roof of the car from the driver side over to the passenger side and remove the driver’s door. After a short time, emergency crews were able to load the young woman out of the car and onto a backboard. The young woman was quickly loaded into an ambulance, and paramedics with Hamilton County EMS rushed her to Erlanger Medical Center. She was in serious but stable condition.
The Hamilton County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the crash.
Photo by Bill Carson