{"id":1518,"date":"2009-07-23T11:05:14","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T19:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/?p=1518"},"modified":"2009-07-23T11:05:14","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T19:05:14","slug":"multi-casualty-traffic-accident-with-an-ejected-2-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/?p=1518","title":{"rendered":"Multi Casualty Traffic Accident With An Ejected 2 Year Old"},"content":{"rendered":"ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>At 7:18 am on the morning of July 23, 2009, Long Beach Fire Department units were dispatched to a report of a vehicle accident at the corner of Pacific and Anaheim.\u00a0 Once on scene E3 crewmembers found that there were 7 patients involved including a 2 year old who had been ejected from a vehicle.\u00a0 Both vehicles sustained significant front-end damage in the collision.\u00a0 The 2 year old was not in a car seat at the time of the accident.\u00a0 The child\u2019s mother also had in the car her two other children.\u00a0 All 4 were transported to a local trauma center with moderate injuries.\u00a0 Three patients, from the other vehicle, were also transported to local hospitals with minor injuries. \u00a0This type of incident demonstrates the absolute necessity for all drivers and passengers of vehicles to be properly restrained.\u00a0 If child car seats are not used properly, the child <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">will<\/span><\/strong> become a projectile in the event of an accident.\u00a0 The cause of this accident is currently under investigation.\u00a0 A total of 17 firefighters and 4 civilian ambulance operators responded to this accident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 7:18 am on the morning of July 23, 2009, Long Beach Fire Department units were dispatched to a report of a vehicle accident at the corner of Pacific and Anaheim.\u00a0 Once on scene E3 crewmembers found that there were 7 patients involved including a 2 year old who had been ejected from a vehicle.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1520,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions\/1520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}