Fire truck hits guardrail while assisting at highway accident, Cleveland OH
TrafficA fire truck assisting at a minor highway accident struck a guardrail and damaged its tail light and ladder rail. The damage was minimal and no injuries occurred. The fire crew was temporarily blocking a lane on the highway for police due to a fender bender.
Audio|Source: Cleveland Fire and EMS
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Transcript:
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Hey, we are sitting on the highway right now blocking for the police for a fender bender.
00:08
When the driver was pulling, when our guy was pulling out to go on his angle here, he got a little too close to the guardrail and knocked off the back light to the very of the truck along with the guardrail for the ladder going up the...
00:28
Up to the aerial.
00:29
It's very minimal damage, but I don't just want to call you first on this.
00:34
It's not a good place to come out to look at it.
00:37
We can make it home, obviously.
00:38
What do you want to do? Ladder 36, service 311[1], truck 36th.
00:43
Are you going to be there for a little while or?
00:49
No, the police said we could head back to the stations.
00:53
I'll get back to the station to meet you there.
00:56
Grandfighter Foreign Service 552.
00:59
So forth. Go ahead.
01:04
Five or three, six-back.
01:06
So what are you saying?
01:11
Seven night.
01:15
No, we'll just stay out there because they just have...
01:25
All right, we're always here.
01:26
We're on 40 Westbound right before the Greaten exit.
01:36
If you catch 480, that West 1.30 is heading westbound and just take it right to the, uh, get close to Grayton, you'll see if you can't miss us.
01:46
We're right at the exit.
01:48
So it's 480 on at Graden.
01:51
Yes.
01:57
Just get all this, we're going to have to just make the proper notifications.
02:06
Mr.
02:08
Bithi 3 is trying to contact you on track 3.
02:15
Yes, Vesethin Mitha B3.
02:17
Go ahead, B3.
02:19
You all call you by Lineland.
02:23
Copy.
02:29
Dispatch 41's on the scene.
02:35
Stretchlight or four back in.
02:39
Four back in.
02:40
Four bed.
02:46
Two kids, I'm not here.
02:53
This past the truck 39, truck 39, attack three.
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42 respond 4023 Woburn 4023 Woburn.
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You have a 40 year old male diabetic emergency.
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Dr.C.003, Woburn.
03:15
Truck 133? Truck 39, can you go to TAC 3 for traffic?
03:20
You're in response to 516.
03:22
Your incident number is 7659.
03:25
Truck 39, what's the extent of the damage to the vehicle?
03:30
We knocked off the little tail light that hangs out a little bit and the railbars that you climb up the aerial on the right hand side.
03:45
Copytruck, is everyone okay?
03:48
We didn't even feel it.
03:49
We just got too close to the, uh,
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to the, um,
03:55
what do you think of? Copytruck 39.
03:58
The guardrail, when we're positioning our apparatus on the highway.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
311: Non-emergency city services line/request
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Location mentioned:
I-480, Cleveland, OH
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