Vehicle down embankment on Highway 40 near Empire, Idaho Springs CO
TrafficA vehicle went off a steep embankment near mile marker 252 on Highway 40 near Empire, Colorado. No injuries were reported. The vehicle occupants were unable to climb back to the road and required assistance.
Audio|Source: Clear Creek County Law Enforcement, Fire, EMS and Mountain Rescue - Digital
06:21
Transcript:
00:00
No one is injured and the RP originally said that there's female stuck in the vehicle, but now saying that the female is not stuck just inside.
00:13
See, Cassidy.
00:15
Uh,
00:19
an RP can't give a better description other than between persons in Empire and somewhere around the 2x2.
00:29
It's approximately two miles outside the Empire headed towards Winter Park.
00:38
Copy.
00:40
Did you make contact with the driver to know if there's no injuries?
00:45
A firm he did.
00:46
The driver told him no one was injured for the call taker.
00:50
The female that is in the vehicle is not necessarily entrapped or stuck, but the embankment that they went down is pretty steep and probably would be pretty hard for her to walk up out of.
01:04
All right, drop.
01:06
It's going to take me a little bit to get over there.
01:13
Copy. And yeah, it looks at the call taker, just as clarifying the notes, so the drivers in the vehicle, because the embankment is too steep to climb, they're not trapped in the car, but they can't get back up to the road.
01:27
Okay, thank you.
01:30
You're welcome, zero.
01:35
All right, the other projects, can you make it around?
01:43
In 14, tell me a tone fire out, so then I'll have any rope-building gear to get down to her, send your rope to toss down to her down for get-out.
01:57
Brush two, dispatch.
02:00
Brush, two, go ahead.
02:04
All right, Chris, go ahead.
02:08
This vehicle is just going to be in the center median, not blocking.
02:17
Apparently, law enforcement was responding out there to give a courtesy ride to the two parties that are still at the vehicle into Georgetown.
02:28
They unfortunately got diverted to another vehicle off the roadway.
02:34
I wasn't sure what type the vehicle in or if you have the capacity to give a courtesy ride into Georgetown for the two parties.
02:45
Rush to copy, filled as ice.
02:50
Rush to copy.
02:53
Sucero-0-11.
02:58
One scene, assuming cabin street command.
03:04
Rush to you on scene, Kevin Creek, command.
03:08
So is there a lot?
03:15
Fire standby,
03:17
town.
03:34
Peacefire respond on a property damage-only accident with parties needing assistance back up to the roadway.
03:47
The approximately mile marker 252 on Highway 40, repeating east fire respond on an auto accident, property damage only,
04:02
needing assistance, getting back up the to the roadway from an embankment.
04:14
Approximately mile marker 252 on Highway 40.
04:19
I'm here. Sue zero, sir.
04:25
Wisconsin, cabin creek command.
04:29
Kevin Creek, go ahead.
04:32
We are going to be able to facilitate a ride down for the two parties to Georgetown.
04:37
Any word from CSP to dispatch a tow bow?
04:45
21 in routes engine 21 in rounds is going to be for a vehicle over the embankment mile marker 252 on highway 40 there are no injuries they are just need assistance getting back up to the roadway it sounds like
05:08
Law enforcement is en route with a delay.
05:12
Break.
05:13
Cabin Creek Command,
05:15
got a note in here that the RP was going to be calling their own tow through their insurance.
05:39
Captain Foreign Raff, Souser 60.
05:43
Jeff, do we know how far down the car is off the embankment?
05:50
One fourteen.
05:54
No one's been able to give us an exact distance.
06:00
The vehicle's going to be a 94 Toyota pickup truck,
06:05
the hazard lights on.
06:07
It's going to be on the south side of the road.
06:12
5 miles east of mile marker 250.
06:20
Joe, thank you.
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Location mentioned:
Near US-40, Idaho Springs, CO 80452
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