Fire truck hit on sharp I-5 curve near Gold Hill, Gold Hill OR
TrafficHaving been struck on a sharp curve along I-5 near Gold Hill, a Rogue River fire truck sustained heavy rear damage from an inattentive driver, requiring extensive repairs.
Audio|Source: W7PRA Peak Radio Association
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Rogue River fire right there coming around the corner at I-5.
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There's a big sweeping right-hand corner right about Gold Hill.
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Plates around to the right.
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Notorious people coming around there too fast in the left lane when they take the old hand scrub and the center, roll it into the center median.
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Well, of course, they come out there and all their equipment's on the apparatus, so they roll right up there to it.
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Somebody came around the corner, not paying attention,
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and hammered the back into their engine on the passenger side, the driver's side on the back of that engine,
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and wiped out the back of the engine pretty good.
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They had it taken up north and rebuilt and put back to the other than that, and as they got their new engine, they sold it, Lake Creek Fire, actually bought that piece of apparatus.
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I-5, Gold Hill, OR
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