{"id":2799,"date":"2011-02-03T20:41:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T04:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/?p=2799"},"modified":"2011-02-08T10:39:04","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T18:39:04","slug":"trapped-victim-on-willow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/?p=2799","title":{"rendered":"Trapped Victim on Willow"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On February 3rd<\/sup>, at approximately 12:50 PM, The Long Beach Fire Department (LBFD) was called out to the scene of another injury traffic accident on Willow St. and Chestnut Ave.\u00a0 Engine 7 arrived on scene within three minutes and discovered a midsized sedan that had sustained major damage to the left side of the vehicle after hitting a series of large trees.\u00a0 This left the driver of the smashed vehicle trapped inside and unable to get out.\u00a0 Truck 7 and Task Force 6 (consisting of Urban Search and Rescue 6 (USAR) and Engine 6) was called and utilized for extrication purposes.\u00a0 Firefighters quickly used the \u201cJaws of Life\u201d to completely remove both mangled doors on the driver\u2019s side within 10 minutes.\u00a0 During that time other crewmembers were inside of the vehicle stabilizing the conscious patient.\u00a0 Firefighters then carefully removed the driver from the wreck and had Rescue 13 immediately transport the patient to a local area hospital.\u00a0 The elderly male driver of the vehicle sustained severe injuries to the left side of his body from the impact.<\/p>\n

Thanks to the quick efforts by the LFBD Firefighters the occupant of this vehicle was safely removed and taken to the hospital.\u00a0 The Long Beach Police Department is currently investigating the cause of the accident.<\/p>\n

There were a total of seven Fire Department apparatus and 18 personnel operating on scene of this traffic accident that took place in the 7th<\/sup> Council District.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On February 3rd, at approximately 12:50 PM, The Long Beach Fire Department (LBFD) was called out to the scene of another injury traffic accident on Willow St. and Chestnut Ave.\u00a0 Engine 7 arrived on scene within three minutes and discovered a midsized sedan that had sustained major damage to the left side of the vehicle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-incidents","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2799"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2829,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799\/revisions\/2829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}