Multi-vehicle crash injures several on Braddock Rd, Fairfax County VA
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TrafficAccording to the dispatch call, emergency crews responded to a multi-vehicle crash on Interstate 495 near Braddock Rd in Virginia. Several people, including a special-needs child, required medical transport to area hospitals. Multiple ambulances and rescue units coordinated at the scene to handle the injuries and patient transfers.
Audio|Heard on: Fairfax VA Fire-Tac Group Calls
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Transcript:
00:00
Command Rescue Squad 408.
00:02
Do we have a destination preference for all these patients?
00:09
Rescue 408 from command?
00:12
Not yet. We were just trying to figure that out whether we need a call.
00:17
I'm sending ambulance 410 and ambulance 428 for your two patients.
00:23
Okay.
00:26
Medic 206 stop at our location.
00:28
They have a BLS patient in their unit.
00:31
They're going to go to Alexandria with one BLS.
00:34
I'll forward one of the ambulances up to the crash site with engine 408.
00:40
All right, I'll copy.
00:42
Medic 206 stop with you.
00:44
They're going to proceed to Alex with one BLS.
00:48
EMS 403 from command.
00:51
EMS 403.
00:53
When ambulance 428 arrives, I'll send them down to you.
00:58
Okay, I'm direct.
01:00
That should be all the transport units that we need as of now.
01:04
Measure 423 left bucket from command.
01:09
Command Rescue Squad 408.
01:11
We've had an additional patient present.
01:14
We're evaluating now the need for a transport unit.
01:17
I just want to make you aware.
01:21
Okay, rest you said one additional patient and you said you do need an additional transport unit?
01:28
That's affirmative.
01:33
Fairfax from 495 command, one additional transport unit.
01:39
Copy one additional transport.
01:43
Ambulance 428 from command.
01:50
Ambulance 428, arriving on scene.
01:55
Okay, proceed past the incident all the way down.
01:58
EMS 403 has one patient for you,
02:01
well past Rescue 408.
02:04
Coming in from Fairfax, you're getting Medic 426.
02:06
Command copies Medic 426.
02:09
Ten, ten hours.
02:12
Measure 423 left bucket from command.
02:18
What's your exact location and do you have a transport unit with you?
02:22
Or even a suppression unit?
02:25
We are directly under Braddock Road with Engine 408 up here.
02:32
We have two individuals from the same vehicle, two patients requesting transport.
02:37
They also have a special needs child that's going to need to be transported with them.
02:42
I think we can handle that with one transport unit.
02:44
We do not have a transport unit right now.
02:48
Okay, you're with EMS 403, correct?
02:52
Correct.
02:54
Okay, ambulance 428 just arrived.
02:56
They should be heading down to you.
03:00
Okay, copy.
03:02
Ambulance 444 from command with your location.
03:07
Command standby.
03:08
We're, uh,
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southbound hot lanes just past Gallows Road.
03:12
We came upon another accident.
03:14
We're checked for injuries.
03:17
All right, copy that.
03:19
Ambulance 4 away from command with your location.
03:25
495, interleaf, Braddock.
03:30
We're coming southbound.
03:34
Okay.
03:37
Come along the right shoulder, pass all the units.
03:39
I have a patient up here in a blue pickup truck.
03:42
Blue pickup truck.
03:46
Command from Fairfax, you're 30 minutes into your incident.
03:53
Command Rescue Squad 408.
03:55
You can disregard our last transport.
03:59
Ambulance 410 is taking our last patient,
04:02
the BLS patient, to Fairfax Hospital.
04:05
Departed now.
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Braddock Rd, Virginia
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