November 5
Rescue Squad units worked with crews from Bethesda and Glen Echo Fire Departments to quickly stabilize and remove the driver from a large SUV that had flipped on its side in an early morning collision on Little Falls Parkway in Bethesda.
Rescue Squad 741 Bravo and Medic 741 were dispatched at 6:00 a.m. on November 5, along with units from Bethesda and Glen Echo for a personal injury collision with a report of a vehicle overturned. The initial dispatch reported the incident to be at Little Falls Parkway and River Road.
Glen Echo Engine 711 found the vehicle on Little Falls to the south of River Road, with the vehicle on its side with one person trapped. Rescue Squad 741 Bravo’s crew arrived and began to stabilize the vehicle using Paratech struts and comealongs on the bottom of the vehicle, and step chocks on the top.
Once stabilized, the Squad crew worked with the crew from Bethesda’s Truck 706 to cut the SUV’s A and B post and flapped the vehicle’s roof, using hydraulic O-cutters. This provided access to the driver, who was assisted from the vehicle onto a backboard. The patient was then transferred to the crew of Medic 741, which conducted a trauma assessment and transported to Suburban Hospital.
