On Tuesday July 13th, 2010 at approximately 6:10 AM Long Beach Fire Department units responded to a reported overturned vehicle with a trapped victim over the side of the southbound 605\/Spring St. off-ramp.\u00a0 Engine 5 was the first arriving unit and located the mangled vehicle down the embankment of the southbound 605 exit of E. Spring St. on it\u2019s roof resting in the middle of a metal fence.\u00a0 Engine 5 crewmembers discovered a 50-yr old male driver who was trapped inside the wreckage. \u00a0Light Force 19 crewmembers were quickly utilized to extricate the patient using the \u201cJaws of Life\u201d.\u00a0 During the extrication another firefighter used a gas powered rotary saw to cut through the tangled portion of metal fence to make room for rescue efforts.\u00a0 Throughout the process the patient was talking to the fire crews.\u00a0 His condition and injuries were listed as moderate as he was transported to a local hospital for further evaluation.<\/p>\n
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Luckily there were no other passengers or vehicles were involved.\u00a0 Because of the quick efforts of fire personnel, this patient was removed from the wreckage safely.<\/p>\n
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This incident occurred in Council District 5 with a total of 7 responding apparatus and 20 personnel operating on scene for approximately an hour.\u00a0 The cause of the accident is currently under investigation. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Tuesday July 13th, 2010 at approximately 6:10 AM Long Beach Fire Department units responded to a reported overturned vehicle with a trapped victim over the side of the southbound 605\/Spring St. off-ramp.\u00a0 Engine 5 was the first arriving unit and located the mangled vehicle down the embankment of the southbound 605 exit of E. […]<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312","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=2312"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2315,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions\/2315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}