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MVC with Rollover and Entrapment - Rt. 1 rear of Smyrna Rest Area
Wednesday, June 2, 2010

At 0526 CHC units alog with Amb. 64, KM6, KM5, & Trooper 4 were alerted for a MVC with a subject not alert. E44-4 under command of 44-17(Hankins) responded quickly with a full crew, followed shortly by R44 & 44-10. While en-route Kent Center advised DSP was on scene reporting a 2 vehicle MVC with one vehicle in the Northbound Lane with 2 pts and a pickup truck overturned in the woods with one subject trapped in the Southbound lanes. 44-4 & 44-10 responded to the scene in the Southbound lanes, and R44 responded to the Northbound lanes. R44 arrived in the Northbound lanes to find one vehicle off the roadway with two pts with minor injuries. Once the vehicle was secure and both pts were packaged by BLS and transported to KGH with A-64 & KM6A, R44 responded to assist crews in the southbound lanes with extrication. In the Sounthbound lanes E4 found a full size Chevy pickup several hundred feet off the roadway in the woods, with the driver trapped upside down in the vehicle. Crews stabilized the vehicle using cribbing and Junkyard Dog Struts, and began extrication with Hurst Tools. Crews used the tools to open the drivers side doors to free the driver. The driver was then able to be immobilized to a backboard and carried out of the woods to EMS crews. The pt was extricated at 0600. He was transported to KGH with B64 & KM6B. 44-17 placed the scene under control at 0610. The driver of the pickup was a Fire Policeman from another DE fire company. Crews remained on scene for a while picking up all his personal belongings scattered along Rt. 1 and in the woods. They were then taken back to the station so they could later be retrieved. 44 units were in service for 1 hour and 11 minutes, and 29 members responded. OIC was 2nd Asst. Chief Isaac J. Hankins, 44-17. Units responding: E44-4, R44, 44-10, A64, B64, KM6, KM5, T4, DSP, & DelDot.