Traffic accident closes Fosterburg Road in Alton, Alton IL


A traffic accident occurred on Fosterburg Road in Alton, Illinois. Emergency services initially planned to use a helicopter for patient transport but changed to ground transport due to a helicopter delay. Police are managing traffic and coordinating units at the scene.
Audio|Source: Alton Police, Fire, EMS and Public Works
03:19
Transcript:
00:00
This has 1802, ARCH has not received any requests at this time.
00:13
Dispatch from 44.
00:15
Can you go ahead and request ARC then? Call Memorial, please.
00:19
104, thank you.
00:25
As we're getting ARCH in Route 2 AMA.
00:33
I'm going to Sam, too.
00:34
Do we need to call out traffic?
00:40
I'm not sure yet.
00:41
Stand by.
00:47
Link of one, yeah, go ahead and make the call for traffic.
00:50
Trench,
00:55
clear on that.
00:57
Thank you dispatch.
00:58
Sam 2, make sure you get preliminary photographs immediately.
01:06
We're clear on that.
01:12
I'll be 10-8[1] from my crash in route to the other one.
01:16
He's going to handle his own tow.
01:26
Going to Sam 2, are we able to keep one lane of traffic open or do we need to shut it down at Vosterberg?
01:34
I think at this point it's a wide enough area we're going to need to shut it down at Fosterberg.
01:41
Sample, I've got my car here temporarily.
01:43
Dispatch, go ahead and let the oncoming shift know that whenever they relieve us, we're going to need somebody to station up here.
01:51
Come on.
01:56
Going to Sam, too, is there another unit that can come via this intersection for traffic?
02:05
Yeah, I'm going to have Deller come to you here in a second.
02:07
M2, Lincoln 1,
02:09
car 2 is coming to you.
02:12
Turn 4.
02:18
Car 4 dispatch, did you get a van off the scooter yet?
02:25
Negative.
02:28
Ready?
02:29
Got that written down, he's going to call it in here in a second.
02:33
Yeah.
02:39
Go ahead.
02:43
Being advised by Memorial on scene one patient, they're transporting via ground due to long ETA on the helicopter and cancel the arch.
02:55
Have more.
03:00
One should be advised, attempted to contact for traffic division, got no answer yet.
03:07
Said, boy, there was an email that Tom 1 was going out of town that might have started yesterday called Tom 2.
03:17
Yeah, that's where I started that.
03:18
He might be calling in now.
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10-8: In service and available for assignment or calls.
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Fosterburg Rd, Alton, IL
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