Serious bike accident on Cape Cod Rail Trail with injury, Harwich MA
TrafficA serious bicycle accident occurred on the Cape Cod Rail Trail near Harwich, MA. Two people were tangled together, and one person suffered an eye impalement from a bicycle helmet. Emergency services responded, including extrication efforts and a MedFlight helicopter to transport the injured to a nearby tech school landing zone.
Audio|Source: Harwich Fire
07:46
Transcript:
00:00
Answering for Sircaro 1.
00:02
This time I'm going to assume Route 124 command.
00:05
You can show Harwich Ambulance 4 on location and is confirmed by the captain we will need bed flights to the tech school.
00:12
Receive. Taking command,
00:15
ambulance foreign location, requesting my flight to the tech school.
00:19
How much fire, car one.
00:21
Answering car one.
00:22
Full department recall for personnel to staff engine six, or engine four, to the landing zone.
00:28
I have Captain White bringing it up there.
00:29
They can go direct.
00:30
Also notify the police to have the school resource officer advise the tech school that we'll be using the landing zone.
00:36
First people, the department recall for personnel to meet at the tech school with engine four.
00:41
Contact to police for the resource officer.
00:45
Okay, and engine four will be responding to the LV.
00:50
Okay, thank you.
00:51
Power is fired to all receivers for the full department recall.
00:55
For the engine at the tech school, first call.
00:57
Harwich Car 1 from command.
01:00
Car 1. Do you have additional personnel to staff another engine? Sorry, another engine.
01:04
You need an engine to the scene, Chief?
01:06
I do. If you don't have personnel, I request a mutual aid engine.
01:10
Okay, stand by.
01:11
Hours fire, car one. Answering Car 1.
01:12
Have engine four respond to the scene and then Mutualate Engine Company to the LZ at this time.
01:19
And how'd you make out on the recall?
01:20
Affirmative Engine 4 to the scene, Mutualate engine to the landing zone.
01:24
Negative on coverage.
01:25
Okay, start the Mutualate Engine, we may end up using them at the scene, depending on what we get for staffing.
01:30
The seat's starting mutual engine.
01:31
Car one. Engine one.
01:33
Yeah, Captain, if you guys can free up the personnel, start that way.
01:37
We have it.
01:38
You can see it down on the mutual aid.
01:39
We're going to have the companies from the drill respond.
01:41
Assist at the scene in the LZ.
01:43
Ricky is standing down on mutual aid.
01:44
Companies from the training will be going to the landing zone.
01:47
I rush fire from command.
01:49
I'm going to need a set of JAWS for education of this patient.
01:52
I ensure that the engine that's responding has JAWS capability.
01:55
I'm going to have JAWS on it, right?
02:01
Received.
02:02
Jaws need to for education.
02:03
Engine one, car one.
02:04
Go ahead, Chief.
02:06
Captain, do you switch the jaws over to engine four, or are they on engine one?
02:09
They're on engine one.
02:11
We'll be responding to the scene momentarily.
02:15
Okay. Harwich Fire hazard engine one to respond to the scene momentarily.
02:18
Car 2, you want to know why I head up to the scene and assistance?
02:20
That was my plan, just waiting for the open traffic.
02:23
Very good.
02:24
Final, car one's at the LV.
02:26
I'll be establishing LV command.
02:27
Car 2 on responding to the scene, Car 1 at the LZ establishing LZ command.
02:32
Fire alarm from Route 124 command, or Harwich Fire from 124 command.
02:36
Harwich Fire answering command.
02:38
Be advised.
02:39
We have two people tangled in a bicycle, one helmet in the eye from a bicycle.
02:45
We're going to be tied up, extricating,
02:47
awaiting the engine.
02:48
We're tied up here at least 20 minutes.
02:49
Proceeds two patients tangled and buys one patient with eye impalement.
02:52
Is that the patient going in MedFlight[1] and if so, can we have more details?
02:55
Working on additional information on that patient and affirmative, that will be the patient.
02:59
Car 2 and engine 4 on location.
03:03
Car 2, engine 4 on location.
03:07
Engine 4 from Harwich Friar, are you on location at the accident or the landing zone?
03:11
Engine four at the accident.
03:14
Car retryer, engine one.
03:19
Engine one. Engine one, ambulance two on responding to the scene.
03:24
Engine one ambulance two on responding to the scene at Cape Car Rail Trail, 5.6.
03:29
I'm going to be.
03:38
Powerage fire from Route 124 command.
03:42
Answer in command. Requesting Brewster engine one, mutual aid to the same, please.
03:45
Requesting Brewster engine one to the scene mutual aid.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
MedFlight: Air medical transport (helicopter) requested or stood down
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Location mentioned:
Cape Cod Rail Trail, Harwich, MA
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