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| Two Injured as Car Goes Over Embankment CATOOSA COUNTY, GA – Monday, August 25, 2008 – At about 8:15 AM, Fort Oglethorpe Fire and Rescue was alerted to a motor vehicle accident with injuries on Scruggs Road near the drag strip. Fort Oglethorpe Engine 1, Engine 10 and Truck 10 responded along with Angel EMS. Firefighters arrived on the scene and found one vehicle, a 4 door Saturn off the roadway and about fifteen feet down a very step embankment. Both the driver and one passenger were still in the vehicle. With assistance from Catoosa Engine 3, firefighters rigged up a system of ropes to allow firefighters to access the vehicle and begin removing the patients. The female driver was removed without too much trouble through the driver’s side door. He was immobilized, placed in a stokes basket and using the rope system she was taken up the hill and turned over to medics. Access to the passenger was limited so firefighters were forced to remove the windshield of the vehicle to extricate him from the vehicle. He too was immobilized, placed in a stokes basket and taken up the hill. Both patients were transported by Angel EMS to Erlanger Hospital in stable condition. The Catoosa County Sheriff’s Department assisted on the scene and the accident is under investigation by the Georgia State Patrol. SOME PICTURES SUPPLIED BY DEWAYNE WILSON OF ANGEL EMS AND ASSISTANT CHIEF GLENN DAVIS OF FORT OGLETHORPE FIRE RESCUE |
