Wreck With Hazmat On Interstate 270 Followed By Trap Job - Saturday, April 16, 2005

Wreck With Hazmat on Interstate 270 Followed By Trap Job - April 16, 2004 - At 0847 hours units from Rockville and Montgomery County Fire & Rescue's Hazardous Incidents Response Team were dispatched to Southbound Interstate 270 between Shady Grove Road and Route 28 for the personal injury collision with with hazmat. Maryland State Police arrived on the scene first to find a tractor trailer truck into the jersey wall with a large fuel spill. Company 3 units arrived to confirm the police report. The driver of the truck was taken as a priority 2 trauma to Suburban Hospital Trauma Center. Engine 31 and Rescue 3 contained the fuel spill with absorbent until the HIRT units arrived to cleanup the spill. Units from Rockville included Ambulance 38, Rescue Squad 3, Engine 31, Medic 319, and Chief 3-1. HIRT units included Engine 71, Hazmat 7, Hazmat Support Unit 7, Ambulance 289, Engine 281, and Aerial Tower 26. Battalion Chief 3 had command. While still on scene of the tractor trailer wreck on Interstate 270, Rescue Squad 3 was dispatched at 1011 hours to the intersection of Old Georgetown Road and Executive Boulevard for the personal injury collision with entrapment. EMS 1 arrived on scene to confirm one trapped and assessed the patients. Engine 231 and Aerial Tower 23 blocked off the scene and stabilized the vehicles. Once Rescue Squad 3 arrived on the scene they went to work removing the driver's sidewall. After both doors and the "B" post was removed, Rescue Squad 3 took the roof of the vehicle. The patient was then packaged and then taken to Suburban Hospital Trauma Center. Battalion Chief 103 had command.