Author Topic: Wrecked or Damaged Apparatus (Read 108472 times)

yfdgricker · « **on:** October 16, 2002, 08:01:09 PM »

I found this post card on Ebay. It's dated 1913 and shows the aftermath of a flood. Columbus, OH Engine No. 10.

WEFR 15 · « **Reply #1 on:** October 28, 2002, 03:33:03 PM »

West End Fire & Rescue, Co. 15 Shippensburg, PA, 1966 GMC Pickup which was broadsided by a vehicle that ran a stop sign, Memorial Day 1976, with yours truely driving!
:shock:

Engine42 · « **Reply #2 on:** November 16, 2002, 09:15:00 PM »

Engine Company 40 involved in an auto accident in April 1958

WEFR 15 · « **Reply #3 on:** November 17, 2002, 09:44:35 PM »

West End Fire ' Rescue Co. 15, Shippensburg, PA, Engine 15-1, 1973 International with Bruco Body. December 1979 while on a maintentence test run it hit a bridge abuttment and flipped. Driver, Officer and the one firefighter in the crew cab were uninjured. Truck was totaled.
:'(

Engine42 · « **Reply #4 on:** November 19, 2002, 11:25:08 AM »

London, Ontario fire department's Seagrave combinations truck heavily damaged in a train collision; completely repaired by Seagrave.

daysleeper47 · « **Reply #5 on:** December 21, 2002, 01:56:40 PM »

Apparatus MVA
Boiling Springs FD, South Carolina
Photos from: www.sconfire.com
Photos by: Phil Plexico

daysleeper47 · « **Reply #6 on:** December 21, 2002, 01:57:39 PM »

Another shot. Same credits.

daysleeper47 · « **Reply #7 on:** December 21, 2002, 02:00:54 PM »

Glassy Mountain FD

Photo from: www.sconfire.com
Photo by: Jason Parker

yfdgricker · « **Reply #8 on:** December 24, 2002, 11:08:14 AM »

Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 08:09:33 EST
Subject: Fatal Crash Involving Fire Engine in Tennessee

Paulette,TN: An Anderson County man was killed Saturday when he veered into the path of an oncoming fire engine that was responding emergency traffic to
a chimney fire.

First Responders and an Emergency Medical Technician onboard the engine immediately began care on the 35 year old man, but he was killed on impact when he struck the 1986 Mack pumper head-on.

Ironically, the engine involved in the accident was the truck that replaced another truck that rolled over in June 2002 while responding to a brush fire. In that accident, the driver of the tanker/pumper was airlifted the University of Tennessee Medical Center for severe neck and back injuries. He made a full recovery. Photos of that accident can be seen at http://www.paulettevfd.com/apparatuswreck.asp

More info can be obtained at:

http://www.paulettevfd.com/apparatus.asp

http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/article/0,1406,KNS_347_1627794,00.html

http://www.volunteertv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1058630'nav=4QcHD1Q9

http://www.wate.com/Global/story.asp?S=1058836

For more info on the department and pictures of the apparatus before the
accident, go to:

http://www.paulettevfd.com

yfdgricker · « **Reply #9 on:** December 24, 2002, 11:19:41 AM »

What a bad first day driving. Medic 7 was almost totaled when hit by a drunk driver, while transporting a priority 1 patient to the hospital. The driver of Medic 7 was fresh out of the Academy, his first night driving. Luckily no one was seriously injured.

yfdgricker · « **Reply #10 on:** December 24, 2002, 11:24:44 AM »

Both photos were taken from the BCFD Medic 7 web site.

daysleeper47 · « **Reply #11 on:** December 25, 2002, 10:35:51 AM »

A Calaveras County fire truck that was temporarily stationed in Lucerne Valley responded to a fire in Lytle Creek on 8-11-02. The truck was traveling south in I-15 when a few hundred feet past the Hwy-138 overpass when the driver suddenly lost control. The truck was loaded with 500 gallons of water and 3 crew when it went suddenly from the #4 lane over the 30-foot embankment. The CDF has grounded thier fleet of trucks as the crashed truck only had 3600 miles on it. On 8-13-02 the pieces were loaded on a truck and hauled to a secure CHP site for further investigation. The crew was said to be recovering from the high speed crash.

Article and Photos from: http://www.wrightwoodcalif.com/cdfcrash.html

daysleeper47 · « **Reply #12 on:** December 25, 2002, 10:39:21 AM »

Another photo of the accident.

yfdgricker · « **Reply #13 on:** March 19, 2003, 10:18:20 PM »

From the firehouse.com website...

http://cms.firehouse.com/content/article/article.jsp?id=7549§ionId=45

Ohio Engine Destroyed by Tractor Trailor

DANA BREWER

On Monday March 17, 2003 at 1352 hours, a Beavercreek, Ohio Engine was destroyed by a tractor trailer truck on Interstate 675.

None of the firefighters were injured, the truck driver sustained minor injuries and was treated at the scene. An ambulance suffered minor damage due to flying debris.

The highway was closed for approximately 5 hours to clean up the debris and diesel fuel spilled when the semi's saddle tank ruptured spilling 200 gallons of fuel on the roadway.

yfdgricker · « **Reply #14 on:** April 14, 2003, 05:28:44 PM »

Fire Truck Involved In Accident During Run

Reported by: 9News
Web produced by: Stacy Puzo
Photographed by: 9News
Last updated: 3/11/03 4:15:25 PM

A Ripley, Ohio, fire truck responding to a call was involved in an accident Tuesday.

The accident happened at Second Street and Rankin Hill Road just before noon.

Two firefighters were involved in the incident and both were recovering Tuesday evening.

The accident happened at Second Street and Rankin Hill Road.

The 1800 gallon tanker slid off the hill and into a ditch.

Firefighter Mark Mussinan had to be flown by Air Care to University Hospital.

Assistant Chief Tim McCaughey was taken to a nearby hospital.

The fire chief says they're still trying to figure out what happened.

Box 2565 · « **Reply #15 on:** July 09, 2003, 03:33:14 AM »

On the evening of May 20, 2003 Cincinnati F.D. Ambulance 17 was involved in this accident. The unit was travelling south on Central Parkway nearing the intersection of Marshall Avenue when the vehicle left the rain coated road and struck a parking sign.

Shown here is the ambulance along with District 3 who was called to the scene to make a report. There were no injuries to the occupants, however the sign post did not survive.
Steve Hagy photo.

WEFR 15 · « **Reply #16 on:** September 09, 2003, 11:38:02 PM »

Story by Annie P. Hundley, Greeley Tribune

JOHNSTOWN, COLORADO — A new fire truck was destroyed Thursday afternoon when the vehicle rolled off Interstate 25 on the way to a sales demonstration in Fort Collins and backed up traffic through rush hour.
The driver, Marc Faluotico, 29, wasn’t seriously injured, but he was taken to McKee Medical Center in Loveland for observation. Faluotico, of Broomfield, is an engineer for the Westminster Fire Department.

He was working his other job as a salesman for Front Range Fire Apparatus, a fire truck dealer based in Boulder, when the crash occurred.

Faluotico lost control of the truck at 1:05 p.m. The truck rolled off the east side of the interstate at the offramp to Colo. 60. The offramp was closed and traffic was stalled until 6 p.m., according to Colorado State Patrol Trooper Brian Williams.

Officials on the scene said the crash may have been caused by a mechanical malfunction. No one else was in the truck.

Jim Wolfinger, a salesman for Pierce Manufacturing Inc. from Appleton, Wis., was trailing Faluotico in another fire truck on the way to Fort Collins. Pierce Manufacturing owns the $600,000 truck, which is insured.

“He said he lost control,” Wolfinger said. “He felt something go wrong.”

The Fort Collins Fire Department had expressed interest in buying a truck like the model that crashed. The truck has a 105-foot ladder, and the two salesmen were headed north to show the fire department what it could be getting. During the rollover, the front cab totally disconnected from the body and the truck had to be hauled away on a flatbed truck.

The truck was recently manufactured in Wisconsin, and had few miles on it beside the trip from Wisconsin to Colorado.

Traffic on northbound I-25 was backed up behind the accident, and several minor secondary crashes occurred. Williams said the traffic was made worse when many drivers cut through the median to drive on Frontage Road. Doing that is illegal, Williams said, and backs up traffic even more when cars merge back onto the highway later on.

shourds · « **Reply #17 on:** October 19, 2003, 03:43:41 PM »

What happened to the salvage of the wrecked truck?

shourds@bellsouth.net

yfdgricker · « **Reply #18 on:** April 01, 2004, 07:39:49 PM »

Fire Trucks Collide Heading To Fire

From http://www.nbc4.com/news/2956414/detail.html

Firefighters Receive Minor Injuries
WASHINGTON -- Fire officials say two fire trucks crashed into each other on their way to fight a blaze in Northwest Washington this morning.

Officials said the accident happened at 14th Street and Columbia Road, Northwest, and the eight firefighters who were aboard the two trucks were taken to George Washington University Hospital and the Medstar unit of the Washington Hospital Center.

Officials said none of the firefighters were seriously injured.

The trucks were heading to a fire in an apartment building in the 600 block of Morton Street, NW.

The fire gutted the first two floors of the building. Officials said the occupants of the building were taken to D.C. Village.

Copyright 2004 by nbc4.com.

yfdgricker · « **Reply #19 on:** April 29, 2004, 05:05:59 PM »

Jonesboro, Arkansas Firefighters Injured in Head-On Firetruck Collision

From Firehouse.com (http://cms.firehouse.com/content/article/article.jsp?id=29698§ionId=45)

CHRIS MACKEY

Jonesboro Firefighter Tim Rook is in stable condition & recovering from Saturday’s firetruck accident.

On Saturday, April 24, Firefighter Tim Rook was responding to a commercial fire alarm in Squad 2, when as he approached an intersection, an 18-wheeler, gasoline tanker truck pulled out in front of the firetruck. The firetruck hit in the center of the tank trailer, pinning Rook in the cab. Firefighter Morgan Walling was thrown to the floor and sustained minor injuries.

As units responded to their brother, Firefighter Walling, with the help of off-duty firefighter Paul Pittman, attempted to extricate Rook, by using the portable Amkus unit from their very own truck.

Brother Rook received a severe head laceration and a compound fracture of his left Tib/Fib. He has had 3 surgery’s and several units of blood. A graft of a blood vessel had to be taken out of his right leg to repair the damaged one.

The Jonesboro Fire Department asks everyone to keep Rook in their prayers.

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