Medical team accesses patient near Paw Paw Tunnel, Oldtown MD


Emergency medical responders coordinated access to assist a patient located just east of the Paw Paw Tunnel near mile marker 154. Due to difficult terrain, multiple vehicles and a utility terrain vehicle were used to reach the patient.
Audio|Source: Allegany County Fire
02:47
Transcript:
00:00
Utility 43 once in the route.
00:04
The utility 43-1 is here? You have the UTV with it.
00:11
Now, if I got a driver come to the station to get it out, he's going to be about 10 minutes before he gets to it.
00:20
Okay. It's going to be at Demolpo's 154.
00:24
We don't know if most access is going to be from Bonds Landing or from the Pau-Pal area, but I'm going to try to make access for there.
00:30
We have 5-1-4 in route.
00:32
Okay. I'm not trying to make access as utilities.
00:35
Okay.
00:40
Inocations, Rush 13, UtB-13 is in route.
00:44
Rush 13, U-TB-13, responding 1232.
00:47
Take out for three.
00:52
Fresh 13 is on Alpha 3[1].
00:59
First 13, okay, we have 514 en route.
01:02
Also, Utility 431 is going to try to make access from Vaughn's landing area, if you want to try there, just prior Popol Bridge.
01:11
Okay, they're going to be on the east side of the Pawpaw Tuning, is that correct?
01:20
Yeah. If I mean the zoo east, like if you're heading east on the canal, uh,
01:25
high of the tunnel.
01:27
Yeah, they're in northeast there, Paul Paul.
01:34
Okay, did you have the GPS location unit, how far past the tunnel they are? We can't actually drive UTV through the funnel.
01:41
But we're going through the tunnel on by UTV and then go by foot.
01:45
They are just on the other side of the tunnel, right out the mile post-fose-154 mile marker, according to our map.
01:53
That's received.
01:59
13 communication.
02:00
Just be advised, we're going to, our plan is to go to the tunnel.
02:03
I'm going to drop off two providers to walk through the tunnel.
02:06
Then the brush truck and the UTV is going to try to make access via tunnel-pill road.
02:11
Continue, company 43 units coming in from Bondsland's utility 43-1, copy.
02:19
Company 13 unit looks like your best access is going to be done on Hill Road.
02:24
I wouldn't even drop from 51, looking at our map.
02:32
That's received. We head to that location, drop the U-PV off there first, and then send somebody the other side of the tunnel.
02:39
I'm not sure we can get down to the canal from tunnel road since they did the work down there.
02:44
Okay, the patient is definitely going to be east of the tunnel.
Police codes explained
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[1]
Alpha 3: Assigned radio channel/talkgroup for operations
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Location mentioned:
Paw Paw Tunnel, Towpath, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, Oldtown, MD 21555
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