Waterbury Fire Department

Rollover With Rope Rescue And Extrication Watertown Ave 5/12/09

Shortly after clearing a junkyard fire not more than a mile away. Waterbury's Engine 8, Truck 1, and Rescue 9 were called for a car down embankment, overturned, with entrapment. A member of the fire marshal's office who had just finished his investigation at the junkyard on Matoon Rd found a car which had gone through the guardrails on Watertown Ave and had come to rest on it's side below the grade of the road, in heavy brush partially in Steele Brook. When the Battlion Chief and Engine 8 arrived they went to work getting ropes layed in and using them to stabilize the car. Directly behind them was Truck 1 and Rescue 9 who worked on getting the stokes set up so that once the driver was extricated they could get him up the embankment. Using reciprocating saws the ladder crew cut the roof to gain access and along with the AMR medics and Rescue 9's personel packaged the patient who appeared to have minor injuries in the stoke for transport to the top of the steep embankment. Reaching the top without incident the AMR crews took the backboarded patient and transfered him onto thier stretcher for a transport to Waterbury Hospital.