Fire crews rescue injured person from wooded hillside, Westerly RI
Medical EmergencyFire crews performed a rescue to retrieve an injured person from a wooded hillside near the Blue Trail intersection in Westerly, Rhode Island. The operation involved lowering a basket down a hill and carrying the person up over difficult terrain.
Audio|Source: Westerly & Chariho Area Fire Departments
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Transcript:
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Do we have a status on the stokes basket?
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The plan is to lower the stokes basket to the ground and have two firefighters load the
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and bring him up.
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You want an additional stokes basket at the top of the hill?
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Yes, we're going to need a stokes basket in the VLS bag to load him.
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We'll lower the basket down and we'll have to bring him up and then requesting some water for the crew up here.
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Very good. We'll start moving things up.
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The crew sticks up with those requests.
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This one of the stories.
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To this message calling, C40.
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It is a bad time.
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Forty, if you can copy the stating the command post was at Winichog Hill at the Blue Trail intersection,
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which should be off of Winichog Hill Road, and then it's going to be a hike and an ATV into the woods.
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Wesley 1.4 is on the air.
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Roger 104.
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Station QVie, Norwich Squad A, Battalion 1 on the scene.
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Norwich Squad, Battalion, one on the scene.
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This is best to T40.
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Westerly, RI
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