Heavy Rescue
Rollover with Heavy Entrapment
Lake Shore Box 20-15 had units from Anne Arundel County Fire Department, Maryland State Police – Aviation Command, Morton’s Towing & Recovery Inc responded to the area of Forest Glen Drive/West Drive where the accident took place.
Lake Shore Box 20-15 Rollover w/Heavy Entrapment
Mike Hugg Media posted the pictures below from the rollover of a cement truck with the driver heavy trapped. The cement truck hit a utility pole and rolled over. Lake Shore Box 20-15 had units from Anne Arundel County Fire Department, Maryland State Police – Aviation Command, and Morton’s Towing & Recovery Inc responded to the area of Forest Glen Drive/West Drive where the accident took place. Due to the extended extrication time, members of the Shock Trauma GO-TEAM were requested to the scene. The driver was taken to Shock Trauma in Maryland with non-life threatening injuries. A friend of the driver posted on social media that he is alert at the hospital.
Make sure you check the Facebook page of Mike Hugg Media.
Update: Anne Arundel County Fire Department
The Anne Arundel County Fire Department posted a bunch of pictures from the overturned cement truck extrication from the 16th.
Here is a link to CBS Baltimore for an article they posted that also has video. Person Trapped After Cement Truck Overturns In Anne Arundel Co.
Heavy Rescue
Fort Worth, TX Fire Department Heavy Rescue 38
Another awesome SVI Truck headed to the Lone Star State!
Heavy Rescue
Checkout the SVI-built Heavy Rescue for the Lone Star State. The Fort Worth rig features a 20′ aluminum body mounted on a Spartan Gladiator LFD chassis with a 24-inch raised roof and powered by a Cummins X15 505HP engine. The new walk-around Heavy Rescue boasts a powerful 180,000-lumen LED Command Light CL602A-W4 light tower, OnScene Solutions heavy-duty aluminum cargo slides and much more!
Below are links to more information about this heavy rescue:
Overall Pictures
Compartments Pictures
Heavy Rescue
Steel Coil Awareness
Steel Coil are transported part all over the world. However, we typically deal with coils when the truck hauling one has an accident or loses its’ load.
Steel Coil Awareness
Steel Coil are transported part all over the world. However, we typically deal with coils when the truck hauling one has an accident or loses its’ load. Steel coils are loaded onto trailer is three common configurations. Those are, Eye in the sky, Shot gun style, and Eye to the Side (Suicide).
Eye in the sky
Shot gun style
Eye to the Side (Suicide)
Weight
Steel coil weights vary vastly. However, Coils can weigh in excess of 45k pounds.
Safety Stand Down
The video below is demonstrates how a 45000 lb steel coil can easily crush a mid sized vehicle. The video is from Worthington Industries in Monroe Ohio and part of their safety stand down.
Sept 22-23, 2017 Advanced Heavy Rescue Symposium at the CFD Training Academy registration forms ready to be sent out, email me if your interested. Only 60 spots available.
