Byers Ambulance sweep away, as paged

[jimmnn]

Ambulance swept away, stuck in Antelope Creek in Morgan County - 7NEWS Denver TheDenverChannel.com

MORGAN COUNTY, Colo. - An ambulance transferring a patient was swept off a Morgan County road by swift-moving water around 5 a.m. Sunday.

"It was swept off the road in 7-to-8 feet of water," said firefighter Travis Bailey of the Wiggins Rural Fire Protection District.

Jim<

 

[N9PBD]

Seems pretty lucky that the patient was ambulatory, and able to hike the mile through the snow.

 

[natedawg1604]

Wow, that explains all the traffic I was hearing on the Byers DTR channel this morning! I almost thought they were working a special SAR-type call, but I didn't understand why I would be hearing SAR traffic on an EMS channel. Now it all makes sense!!

 

[MikeyB]

The video showing the ambulance is crazy. It's almost completely covered and the back door is wide open, so water is getting into the patient area. That's got to be a complete loss.

Was the Byers unit transferring to a Morgan County unit to go to the hospital or vice versa (reading the news reports as always doesn't make it clear but I'd imagine Morgan County was going to pick up the patient to take to the hospital in either Brush or Fort Morgan.

Anybody know if someone is lending an ambulance to Byers until they get a new one?

 

[jimmnn]

The video showing the ambulance is crazy. It's almost completely covered and the back door is wide open, so water is getting into the patient area. That's got to be a complete loss.

Was the Byers unit transferring to a Morgan County unit to go to the hospital or vice versa (reading the news reports as always doesn't make it clear but I'd imagine Morgan County was going to pick up the patient to take to the hospital in either Brush or Fort Morgan.

Anybody know if someone is lending an ambulance to Byers until they get a new one?

Byers was transferring to Morgan County ambulance near the county line for transport to Ft Morgan, something they do pretty often to keep the limited supply of volunteer EMT's available in Eastern Arap County.

Jim<

 

[04Z1V6]

Sorry some one needs to say it. Rule #1 for EMS first responder: The rescuer should never become the ones needing rescued. They should have been better then too put those people in that ambulance in that kind of danger. It was a unneeded risk and they should be retrained.

 

[jimmnn]

Update: Strasburg Amb-82 was loaned to the Byers fire protection dist for the next few months for EMS response.

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