Box truck hits school bus causing fire and injuries, Churubusco IN
TrafficA box truck collided with the side of a school bus near a high school causing a fire and leaking fuel. Multiple people were injured and some were trapped. Power lines were down at the scene, creating additional hazards.
Audio|Source: Whitley County Fire Operations
08:10
Transcript:
00:00
Fire 201, fire two and two in a row. 2.00 and 202 show you in route to one Eagle Drive to Rubesco High School information. Law enforcement on scene advising the upbox truck in a school bus. That's fire 2.1. Fire 201. Fire 201. Fire 201. We're on scenes like Ceebo and collision.
00:28
have a box truck into the side of a school bus. A possible fire coming from the box truck at this time, and we do have fluid on the ground. I'll take command. We'll be investigating further. Clear 201, box truck and school bus. Fluid on the ground. Fire from the box truck.
00:48
2-01 show you in route to one Eagle Drive for a bus to high school. Ingen, 201, Command, too. Engine 2-1, come off Culley Street, have your crew in packs. I'm going to have you guys lay up. We're going to have you guys lay up. We're going to have to get a bumper line off. I've got fired 2-0-2 assessing injuries, and if we have any trapper pin at this time, I'm sure. The engine 201's clear on the pack, stretching along.
01:18
Fire 201 information, 14-year-old male patient on the floor of the bus, green card. Now, I'm killer. It looks like we have EMS pulling up now. Is they able to get on our ops channel, do you know? Fire 202 from command. Fire 202.
01:43
It's a IG number 1993, so I'm showing it as a possibly gasoline at the worst right now. All right, CO2 is clear, several patients in the bus. Agent 201, you're...
01:59
We've got lines down with this van as well. We've got a one-party pen in the van. You guys, van or box trucker? In the box structure. Okay, cleared. Engine 201 was focused on getting a bumper line off first, and then we'll work on extra game.
02:25
RISC 208 in route. RISC, 2AHOU in RELF. RISC 2A 2A2. Go ahead. We have you guys assist with patient care in the small bus. I believe we have at least one patient at this time, possibly more.
02:52
Rescue 208 here on patient care.
02:55
2.01, can we get the power company coming to? I believe these are live wires.
02:59
Clear. If they're live wires, let's not touch that vehicle, then we're going to wait until we get the power set off.
03:03
Dispatch from command on Ops 2.
03:05
Command, go ahead.
03:06
Just get AEP[2] in around Signal 10[1], and if they can just shut this green off, that'd be great too.
03:11
It's clear on AEP[2] shutting the grid off.
03:14
I see you fired 314.
03:16
314. The advise I'm on scene PV with my gear, do you have assignment?
03:19
314 takes safety.
03:21
Engine 201 from command, you aware that we do have power lines down.
03:26
We're put on the power line.
03:27
Fire QO2 from command.
03:28
All units on the fire ground, we have a firefighter down due to power lines being on the ground.
03:33
Nobody touched the vehicles at this time until we can get another 360[3] ties up.
03:38
201A from command.
03:39
No one-A. Just give me another 360[3] figure out if these vehicles are touching.
03:43
And where the power lines are exactly, I don't want anybody touching anything until we can verify what's going on until we can get the power cut off.
03:50
So on three quick here.
03:51
Do on the 360[3].
03:52
208A from command.
03:53
Get with 201A, let's figure out if we can get patients out of that school bus.
03:57
Let's not rush this right now.
03:59
2A8, clear.
04:00
And 201A? 201.
04:01
201. A.
04:02
The car line is only touching the truck, not touching the bus.
04:05
Okay, clear.
04:06
Let's focus on getting the patients out of the school bus.
04:09
We'll worry about that from now.
04:10
Let's call get our bumper line charged in case we have any arqueen due to the fluid leaking out of that truck.
04:14
Fuel on April.
04:15
Safety from command.
04:16
Safety, go ahead. Do you clear on the power lines that are touching the box truck.
04:19
Affirmative. Clear. Dispatch from Command on Opts 2.
04:23
Command, go ahead.
04:24
Do we have any call back from AAPE yet on when we can get this tower disconnected?
04:28
Affirmative AP is en route.
04:30
A 201 from command.
04:31
Are we able to verify how many patients are in the school bus, see if we need any more resources coming as far as the ambulance is go?
04:38
We have five patients including the driver.
04:40
Okay, clear.
04:41
Dispatch from command ops two.
04:42
Command, go ahead.
04:43
Contact Parkview tell we have a total of five patients.
04:46
Not too sure of PD gave you guys tags for all of them yet, but let's work on getting more ambulances on scene at least three to four more at this time.
04:57
Clear, we'll get three or four more ambulances in route, five patients.
05:00
Go for safety.
05:01
Have we verified visually what's in the Spock truck yet?
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
Signal 10: Emergency/Serious Incident
[2]
AEP: Power company notification
[3]
360: Complete scene size-up (fire/EMS term; scene safety check)
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Location mentioned:
Eagle Dr, Churubusco, IN 46723
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