Busy Weekend for Waldorf Volunteers
8-4-06 thru 8-6-06

August 4-6, 2006
reported by F-3 Deputy Chief DJ Mills

Starting Friday Morning with a Construction accident and ending Sunday with an auto-extrication and a total of 4 fly outs, Waldorf volunteers stayed busy.

On Friday morning Fire 3 and EMS 3 were alerted to Theodore Green Blvd at the construction site for an injured subject. Units arrived on scene and requested a helicopter for an injured subject. Engine 31 handled the L.Z. for this call.

Later in the day the assignment for a Motorcycle PI was dispatched for Leonardtown Rd a/o Jameson Dr. Hughesville Chief 2 was passing by and stopped on the scene to find a male subject that had rear ended a passenger vehicle on his motorcycle and fractured his tib-fib and immediately requested a helicopter. Units from Co. 3 Fire and EMS arrived on scene and packaged the patient and then handled the L.Z.

On Saturday morning units were back at it again around 0249 in the morning on Billingsley Rd a/o the Landfill to find a vehicle that had rolled over several times down an embankment. Units from 3 extricated the victim and requested a helicopter however had to cancel it due to the patient being a trauma code, as units were picking up a subject walked up to the scene and advised that he was the driver and the other guy was the passenger and the car rolled over on top of the victim.

Two hours later the assignment for a PI at Berry Rd and Crain Hwy was dispatched units arrived on scene with a 2 vehicle accident and requested a helicopter for this one also.

On Sunday morning around 0300 hrs an assignment for a 10-50 PI at St. Charles Pkwy and St. Ignatius Dr was dispatched. Units from 3 arrived on scene to find a vehicle on its side wrapped around a tree with subjects trapped. The assignment was asked to be upgraded bringing several units to scene for a lengthy extrication, 2 helicopters were requested for the patients in the vehicle however 1 was placed in service due to another patient being a trauma code. Units operated on the scene for approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes. The full story has was reported by WVFD Safety Officer Pembleton and can be found here

Billingsley Road, 8/5/06, 0248 hrs

PI at Berry Road & Crain Highway, 8/5/06, 0500 hrs