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Accident with Reported Entrapment
By Firefighter/EMT-B Kyle Compton
October 13, 2015
On 10/13/15, in the heat of the morning commute, Company 2 was alerted to a Motor Vehicle Accident with Entrapment. Units arrived on scene to find no one trapped, but had multiple patients and limited access to some of the patients. Squad 2 established the Leonardtown Road command and went to work helping Paramedic Ambulance 27 with the highest priority patients. Multiple additional ambulances were started, while the rest of the the squads and suppression units were placed in service. A helicopter, Maryland State Police Triooper 2, was requested for an infant, as well as Engine 31 to the landing site at the Bryantown Sports Complex.
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