Multi-vehicle crash with injuries on Dearborn Drive, Durham NC
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According to the dispatch call, emergency crews responded to a multiple-vehicle crash on Dearborn Drive in Durham that caused injuries. Fire, EMS, and police units coordinated to assist patients, transport the injured, and block traffic for safety.
Audio|Heard on: Durham City Fire
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05:44
Transcript:
00:00
Engine nine from tank four, advising the injuries up there when you get a chance.
00:13
Hey chief, pull my truck up here and get on this side of this call.
00:24
You're ahead.
00:32
More than ambulatory, people who want to go to the hospital.
00:40
Take one ambulatory people.
00:43
Give me a minute.
00:45
Engine or engine three, upon your arrival, follow FD 20 who advises where we need you up there.
00:50
Go to the curve.
00:51
Almost stay where I'm at.
00:59
Party EMS.
01:05
Go for command.
01:09
How many PIs do you guys have currently?
01:13
I'm still trying to confirm the number.
01:16
So go ahead and send me 2 min.
01:17
That's an EMS supervisor, and I'll let you determine who you want transport.
01:23
10-4[1].
01:34
Fifty-twenty, I am going to send Engine Three.
01:36
They should be here any minute.
01:37
Put them where you want them.
01:44
Yeah, boy, can you hold on after a second? The reason this vehicle?
01:54
Yes, it's (name withheld).
01:55
It's hot.
02:00
Medic truck gets on scene.
02:02
Go down to where engine nine is.
02:03
Engine nine's in the curve.
02:05
Before the curve.
02:12
Hey, engine three, pull behind this van.
02:26
Ladder six from ladder six bravo.
02:31
Yeah.
02:33
What's your location?
02:37
Main lobby.
02:39
UNC.
02:48
Command from engine three.
02:50
This person says he is good.
02:53
He does not need EMS.
02:57
All right.
03:00
And maybe help out Engine Nine with PD care or patient care up there.
03:05
10-4[1], you want us to leave this here for the block?
03:11
I didn't get PD on this channel so they blocked up there and I'll block back here.
03:17
10-4[1].
03:23
Engine on, have PD block up there.
03:25
I'm gonna block back here and stop traffic.
03:33
Engine three, give me when your firefighters come back here and block this traffic for me.
03:37
I'm gonna pull my truck over.
03:46
Do you have any record of what power company may be attached to this address?
03:57
It'd be Duke Power if it's still in Durham.
04:04
I'll block traffic back here too.
04:06
I can't do it until that one stops up there as well.
04:10
10-4[1].
04:18
Battalion three cleared 16.
04:21
Put his lighter sticks, go ahead.
04:24
Yeah, what's your location for a face to face?
04:28
UNC lobby.
04:40
Engine three personnel or engine nine block traffic.
04:43
Do not let any more traffic come this way.
04:49
No, I'll just do it.
04:59
Command to medic seven.
05:02
Go for command.
05:05
Hey, we are approaching from the south side of Dearborn.
05:08
Where would you like us?
05:11
I need you on the curve on Dearborn with engine nine and EMS super.
05:16
Seven copy.
05:25
Three from Bree Bree Bree, you want me to move up Engine Three?
05:31
Is that road blocked off? Got PD blocking up here at Maplewood.
05:36
What do you need Engine Nine?
05:39
Four, I have two PD units and EMS pulling up right now.
05:44
Block traffic.
Police codes explained
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[1]
10-4: Acknowledgment / OK
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Location mentioned:
Dearborn Dr, Durham, NC 27704
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