| On Tuesday, April 9th, 2013 Ambulance 44-1 was dispatched at 1441 to cover to for Keystone Valley Fire Department Ambulance 08 for a medical emergency in a remote wooded area at Bert Reel Park in Sadsbury Township.
Ambulance 44-1 responded one minute after dispatch at 1442 and was the first arriving unit on the scene three minutes later.
Quickly noting the difficulty in accessing the patient deep into the woods, the EMS crew requested for an ATV to be dispatched to the scene. This request summoned ATV44 to the scene.
Chief McWilliams arrived on the scene and coordinated access to the patient for the ATV crew while the crew of Ambulance 44-1 hiked to the patient to begin medical treatment.
Access was gained through a corn field adjacent to Valley Road and the ATV traversed through the field and heavily wooded area to cross a creek to access the patient.
Once the ATV met the EMS crew, the patient was loaded onto the ATV skid unit on a spinal immobilization board and was evacuated from the woods to the awaiting ambulance.
Ambulance 44-1 and Medic 93-3 transported the patient to Paoli Hospital's Trauma Unit for treatment of head injuries.
Ambulance 44-1 cleared from this incident at 1700. |
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