Pickup Falls 30 Feet After Crashing Into Dry Canal
INCIDENT DATE/TIME: 07-28-2024 | 1:00 AM
LOCATION: 47th Avenue & Cholla Street
AREA/CITY: Phoenix
DETAILS:
- Fire crews responded to reports of a vehicle collision in a residential neighborhood.
- A Glendale Fire crews responded and located a pickup truck that crashed through a guardrail and then through an iron fence before falling 30 feet into a flood diversion channel.
- The assignment was quickly upgraded to a technical rescue operation drawing in several additional resources from the cities of Phoenix and Glendale.
- Firefighters coordinated with Phoenix Police and devised a rescue plan.
- Phoenix Police officers were able to access the spillway with their patrol vehicles via a nearby maintenance entrance.
- Fire crews provided the officers with first aid equipment to stabilize the male driver.
- the driver was found laying on the ground near the heavily damaged truck.
- Officers provided aid and stabilized the driver before loading him into a patrol vehicle.
- Officers extracted the driver from the spillway in the patrol vehicle and rendezvoused with nearby fire crews outside of the spillway.
- The driver was transferred from the patrol vehicle and into an ambulance.
- The driver was transported to a local trauma center with serious injuries.
- Phoenix Police remained on scene to investigate the collision.
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