Cuba, Clarksville Use Rescue Tools To Extricate Patients in Tuesday Crash
Clarksville Volunteer Fire Company, Inc
Last night, just before 18:00, CVFC was dispatched to assist Cuba Fire Department with a vehicle crash on SR305 at the town line.
First arriving units updated it to be a 2 vehicle head-on with 2 patients unresponsive and heavily entrapped in one of the vehicles.
CVFC 6 with 3, Chief, Chief 1 were on the street in just over 3 minutes from dispatch. While enroute, CFD chief 2 advised R6 they would be going to work with the TNT rescue tools. R6 arrived on scene, and quickly went to work, removing doors and the roof from the sedan while CFD rolled the dash and Cuba Ambulance provided patient care.
The CVFC crew assisted with getting the patients to the ambulance for transport and then went to assist CVFC 4 with traffic control as SR305 was closed for an extended time for accident investigation. All units were BIS just before 21:00