Multiple-vehicle crash on icy Blue Ridge Parkway sparks rescue rush, Carroll County VA
TrafficNear Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia, multiple vehicles collided on icy interstate causing urgent rescue and patient transport efforts amid hazardous road conditions.
Audio|Source: Carroll County Public Safety and Galax City Fire / EMS
07:14
Transcript:
00:00
Get up here to where you see the emergency vehicles, but stay in the emergency lane, then walk your crew up here, we've got several needs to assist.
00:06
You may have to transport, but we need to keep the interstate open and get the wreckers up here.
00:12
10-4[1], we're coming through the 13-mile markers now.
00:19
You may want to have some of your rollback back down in here,
00:22
but other than that, you need to be southbound.
00:26
Thank you.
00:41
Hey Hunter, I was just advised by pedestrian person out here walking around.
00:46
Is there a new wreck that's going to be on the northbound side? It's going to be about a half mile to a mile before you approach this on the southbound, but the gentleman said if there was another vehicle on the side on the northbound.
00:56
I know if you guys do about that one or if that's a new situation.
01:02
The advice, boy, mile one.
01:04
One day, one.
01:07
And David, that's what I was trying to get as well, and he said it was just on the northbound side, or correction, it's going to be on the southbound side,
01:15
approximately a half mile back.
01:21
At the 8 under the bridge.
01:27
830.
01:28
Where I'm standing, we can't see nothing.
01:34
We got that four, thank you.
01:39
A, 100, A30.
01:44
Go ahead.
01:46
I'm at the 7 northbound heading your way.
01:49
I'll look for it.
01:53
10, 4, thank you.
02:01
800 CICOM.
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8100. Have y'all heard anything from VDOT about getting out here and putting salt down?
02:23
Back.
02:28
1040. All right loopers, guys.
02:31
How you, Hunter? Can you give me a 21?
02:37
1040.
02:44
You're advising to proceed past the exit not to turn off and come up the wrong way? Correct.
02:51
Due to the record trying to get the jackknights out of the way, you're going to have to continue south in Southfield Lane.
02:58
If you'll stop underneath the parkway bridge, or the,
03:04
I believe it's a parkway bridge, you've got patients standing at the top.
03:07
And then your additional will be at the back of the FedEx truck.
03:13
10.4, we're passing exit 8 now.
03:23
Vigion has brought two individuals from the flipped pickup truck, near exit 8, to the BP at exit 8.
03:31
My guys are assessing them now.
03:39
72, 1200, go ahead.
03:42
All right, if you continue past X at 8, come down and cross over, you will not get northbound.
03:50
That was 76, 72 is getting off an exit 8 unless you advise other assignment for us, we can stop with 301.
03:59
Yeah, stills off of 301, that'll be 104.
04:04
Understood.
04:06
301, we're about two minutes out.
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The job of chance is checking the patients.
04:13
One of them is an infant.
04:15
To be advised, I am going southbound, northbound lanes with a gentleman to find the driver of the pickup.
04:25
Tenforth.
04:29
They have contacted V-dot multiple times to get crews out there, unknown ETA.
04:40
Can't hold thing.
04:49
$1,200 10 a fire.
04:53
Go ahead, $1,200.
05:00
Trying to comp the traffic on three channels.
05:03
Can you advise what you need and where you're at?
05:07
I'm at the very front of it.
05:09
We're working our way back.
05:11
We're pulling up on scene now.
05:28
Unit 4, the Piper Gap.
05:31
The ones under the underpass have been the ones that's been taken to the BP,
05:36
so your only other green patient is going to be at the back of the FedEx truck.
05:46
10-4[1]-76 is on scene, making our way by foot.
05:54
Tell me where I'm going back there.
05:58
Tell me where I'm going back there.
06:02
Report any unit on scene.
06:06
Go ahead.
06:07
Tell me when to stop back back.
06:09
I'm coming that way.
06:12
Come on back.
06:13
Team comes.
06:16
Very very slick, so stand back a little bit.
06:27
Jason, if you're coming on back,
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come over toward Rescue One,
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over toward the cab of the truck,
06:34
come on back.
06:44
1,200 minutes of the truck.
06:52
We're getting on the wrong way at exit 8.
06:56
Going to be going south in the northbound lane.
07:04
We would announce to all units in route.
07:07
Cut back to routine, we've got green patients left.
07:11
It's too slick out here to be trying to get here in a hurry we'll use them when they get here.
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10-4: Acknowledgment/Affirmative
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Blue Ridge Pkwy, Virginia
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