{"id":1891,"date":"2009-12-13T10:17:12","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T18:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/?p=1891"},"modified":"2009-12-13T17:35:46","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T01:35:46","slug":"rain-small-hatchback-tunnel-divider-2-fatalities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/?p=1891","title":{"rendered":"Rain + Small Hatchback + Tunnel Divider = 2 Fatalities"},"content":{"rendered":"ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>On\u00a0the evening of December 12, 2009 at 8pm the Long Beach Fire Department was called out\u00a0\u00a0to an injury traffic accident at the Spring Street Tunnel\u00a0and Kilroy Airport Way. LF19 were on scene within minutes and reported that there was 1 vehicle involved with 2 victims inside. The small, 2 door hatchback had apparently been traveling East on Spring and somehow ended up against the divider to the tunnel, subsequently splitting the car into 2 pieces. The tunnel was shut down in both directions to traffic,\u00a0\u00a0due to the amount of damage and debris.<\/p>\n<p>Battalion 3\u00a0\u00a0along with Truck 7 &amp; Rescue 9\u00a0were also on scene and began to help with the extrication of both victims. After assessing both victims, it was determined that they both were dead from the impact. Both truck companies used their Jaws of Life to cut the car from around the bodies so they could be removed for\u00a0the coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 On\u00a0the evening of December 12, 2009 at 8pm the Long Beach Fire Department was called out\u00a0\u00a0to an injury traffic accident at the Spring Street Tunnel\u00a0and Kilroy Airport Way. LF19 were on scene within minutes and reported that there was 1 vehicle involved with 2 victims inside. The small, 2 door hatchback had apparently been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-incidents","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1891"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1895,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions\/1895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}