SCHUYLKILL COUNTY, Pa. – The McAdoo Fire Company was out escorting Santa around the community in his sleigh when the pager went off for a motor vehicle accident at Lofty Road and Mile Hill Road (SR 309) around 6 PM on Thursday, December 12.
Chief 49 was advised of a single vehicle crash with a vehicle down an embankment. The call was upgraded to a crash with entrapment which added Hazle Township Fire.
Crews arrived to find an SUV around 50 feet down an embankment. From a mark on a nearby tree, it appears the vehicle left the roadway, went airborne and struck a tree nearly 10 feet up from the ground.
With a rope anchored to the guide rail, crews descended down the embankment and began to assess the driver.
Hazle Township firefighters arrived and conversed with Chief 49. The plan was devised to set up a haul system to bring the driver back to street level.
After 10 minutes of setting up the ropes, crews were able to get the patient into a stokes basket and bring her up to the surface.
The driver was placed into McAdoo ambulance and taken just down the street to where Hometown Fire Company had set up a landing zone for LVHN Medevac 4.
The patient was transferred to the helicopter and transported to a trauma center.
Firefighters remained on scene until 7:30 PM once the car had been removed from the embankment. Kline Township police investigated the crash.
