Collision with Fire
 
By Fire Fighter/EMT Pieter Lucas
August 18, 2016
 

Units responded this afternoon for a reported rescue with entrapment and fire in Ellicott City. At 14:01, Tower 3 and Paramedic 35 were alerted to Baltimore National Pike at Marriottsville Road for a two vehicle collision, box 40-062. Callers stated that one vehicle was overturned and one was on fire. Upon arrival units confirmed a two vehicle collision between a work van and a sedan with fire but no entrapment. Paramedics 35, 85, and 45 began treatment of the three patients - two were flown to University of Maryland Shock Trauma via Maryland State Police Troopers 1 and 2, while the third patient was transported to Sinai Hospital by ground.
Route 40 remained closed until approximately 20:45 while crews worked to contain and remove chemicals that were in the van and tow the vehicles.
Thanks again to Doug Walton, DFRS Office of Public Information, for the pictures.

 
Units: Tower 3, Paramedic 35, Tanker 3