{"id":2495,"date":"2010-10-28T16:00:44","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T00:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/?p=2495"},"modified":"2010-10-28T16:00:44","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T00:00:44","slug":"big-rig-narrowly-avoids-plunging-from-a-freeway-overpass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/?p=2495","title":{"rendered":"Big Rig Narrowly Avoids Plunging From A Freeway Overpass"},"content":{"rendered":"ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>At 9:20 this morning, units from the Long Beach Fire Department were dispatched to a report of an overturned big rig.\u00a0 Engine 12 was first to arrive on scene and found a tractor-trailer perched precariously on top of a guardrail.\u00a0 The truck was located on the transition road between the eastbound 91 to the southbound 710 freeways.\u00a0 The trailer portion of the truck had already fallen, sending it crashing to the freeway on ramp nearly 40 feet below.\u00a0 The tractor portion dangled on the mangled railing.\u00a0 Although the cab of the truck was severely crushed, the driver miraculously managed to pull himself from the wreckage prior to fire department arrival.\u00a0 The male patient, who appeared to be in his 40\u2019s, was transported to a local hospital in moderate distress.\u00a0 The force of the impact caused a fuel leak that was plugged by the Long Beach Haz Mat Team.\u00a0 The Long Beach Urban Search and Rescue Team, with the help of LA County Fire\u2019s USAR Team provided emergency stabilization to the truck until several heavy tows were able to bring it down.\u00a0 The transition road remained closed for several hours.\u00a0 A total of 38 Long Beach personnel responded to this incident as well as several units from LA County.\u00a0 This incident occurred in the 9<sup>th<\/sup> council district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 9:20 this morning, units from the Long Beach Fire Department were dispatched to a report of an overturned big rig.\u00a0 Engine 12 was first to arrive on scene and found a tractor-trailer perched precariously on top of a guardrail.\u00a0 The truck was located on the transition road between the eastbound 91 to the southbound [&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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495","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=2495"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2503,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions\/2503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}