Kentland Handles 3-CarMVA I-77 MVABrings Charleston and Malden

Recently, Kentland Rescue Engine 33 was dispatched to the intersection of Martin LutherKing, Jr. Highway and Whitfield Chapel Road. While responding, the run was upgraded to an MVAwith entrapment. RE 33 arrived to find a three-vehicle accident with a SUVon its side and the occupant still in the vehicle. The crew stabilized the vehicle with Paratech struts and the winch from RE 33 to create a tie back. Once the vehicle was stabilized, cuts were made on the posts at the top of the vehicle as well as relief cuts to some of the bottom posts in orderto flap the roof down and provide access to the patient. The patient was turned overto EMS and Company 33 returned to the LandoverRoad firehouse.

- Photo courtesy of Kentland FD

Kanawha County Station 3 Malden and the Charleston Fire Department were dispatched to Interstate 77 south in the area of the 97 milemarker, foran MVAwith injuries and fire. Chief 3, Utility 3 and Charleston E454 arrived to find a fully involved vehicle on the berm and a second vehicle 600-feet south off the berm. E 454 deployed a 1-3/4 inch handline to extinguish the fire. Malden Rescue Engine 33 arrived and provided additional waterto E 454. There were no injuries.

- Fire News photo by AC Bradley ‘Sparky’Scott, Malden VFD