•7-19-09 - Mass Casualty Crash on the 30 Strip•

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At approx. 0552  hours, the rescue local assignment was transmitted for the vehicle accident with people trapped on Route 30 in Hellam Township. Rescue Engine 41, Rescue 41-2 and Deputy Chief 41 (Command 41) responded on the run with ten volunteers. Other units on the assignment included Engine Company 21, EMS units, Lancaster Rescue 7-9, and Lancaster Engine 8-1. Deputy 41 arrived on scene and found a two-vehicle collision with a total of 7 patients, some lying on the ground.  There was no entrapment.  Volunteers from Wrightsville 41 arrived and immediately began patient care efforts, as Engine Company 8-1 arrived and assisted with vehicle depowerment  and provided a protection handline.  All crews on scene assisted with patient packaging and cleanup of debris from the roadway.  Rescue Company 41 returned to service within an hour and a half.

CREW: RESCUE Co. 1 FF M. Cover FF R. Livelsberger FF E. Livelsberger RESCUE Co. 2 AC C. Livelsberger LT. E. Oberdorff FF R. Brown FF R. Crawford FF R. Deitz COMMAND 41 DC S. Livelsberger POV CHIEF Smeltzer