Reading PA Fire Department

 Accident tones rang out at 1252 for a wreck at S. 5th & Cherry Streets. E3-R1-Car 7 & Medic 602 responded with dispatch reporting possible entrapment. Car 7 arrived a minute later, confirming one entrapped in a vehicle on its side, 3 vehicles involved, and special called Ladder 1.

 Crews stabilized the vehicle with Junkyard Dogs, 2 step cribs, & a Come-Along attached to the Rescue. Medic 2 attended to the patient inside the vehicle as the top of the vehicle was dismantled and folded down. The victim was extricated and enroute to the hospital at 1310. Rescue crews wrapped up and were back in house in 40 minutes.

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