Vehicle rolled down embankment near Rocky Top Rd, Newport TN


A vehicle rolled down an embankment near Rocky Top Road in Cocke County, Tennessee. Emergency responders are using ropes and specialized equipment to rescue potential victims. The patient's condition is being assessed, and an air medical helicopter is on standby for a possible launch.
Audio|Source: Cocke County Sheriff, Fire, and EMS, Newport Police and Fire
04:15
Transcript:
00:00
Once you get there and confirm patients still alive, we'll go ahead and auto-launch Live Star.
00:06
Sheriff's department walking down there right now.
00:09
I think it's extremely cheap where he's at.
00:12
Got it.
00:14
Double. The app was just in the command yet.
00:21
Negative my end.
00:31
Service truck 1-301.
00:35
Go ahead, service truck.
00:40
How many feet of rope are you guys bringing?
00:50
I think we added some and there's more down in the lower garage.
00:55
Let's check with witness one.
00:56
Service truck won't be advised.
00:58
You're going to need to post somebody at the largest.
01:02
to get up there. Regulate traffic going up. We can't have a bunch of guys going up there and pick up the truck and clocking up the road.
01:09
It's going to need to make way for the Hummer and anybody that's a high angle, low angle rope recognition has got rope.
01:16
Everybody else is going to have to four-wheel it, walk up,
01:20
and clock that up there with operators that don't have the skill the tech threat.
01:29
Good, copy service truck one, copy truck.
01:31
Central service truck one's gonna be on scene.
01:34
Agent 7, you don't care, regulate the traffic up there. We're about two and a half, three miles up above near Rocky Top Rd.
01:40
Copy service truck.
01:53
Cyrus Truck 1 copy.
01:56
301, how many Swipwater personnel do you have respondent?
02:04
4.
02:09
Go ahead.
02:11
Just to let you know, this is going to be a track that's rolled down the embankment. We can't even see it on the road. They're trying to get this update.
02:23
Just for some extra manpower, if not.
02:26
They can bring their rope too.
02:29
Rob, rope bags load in the Tahoe. I got five guys ready to roll. Just let me know.
02:34
Hand forward. Go ahead and roll.
02:37
Central Tom Pairswell out for that, for rokes, please.
02:41
The number of mother.
03:01
Central Paris Fire.
03:04
Need to respond with ropes and manpower.
03:08
near Rocky Top Rd.
03:10
near Rocky Top Rd.
03:13
It's going to be past this residence.
03:15
Little ways on up the roadway. We're going to need ropes and manpower.
03:28
616, 1401, you just bring one one apparatus in those guys, we won't be able to fit anything else up in here.
03:36
Yeah, we got them in a Tahoe, we're on a way, sent a QR 14 in route.
03:42
846.
03:50
Whiskey 3 en route with Humvee.
03:54
Whiskey 3, if you can get a hold of a backboarder or stuck to that degree.
04:05
Central, see if you can redispatch rescue squad. We need some harnesses.
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Near Rocky Top Rd, Newport, TN 37821
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