Station 100 was alerted shortly after 9:00 am after being requested by Neshannock Township Police to assist with a motor vehicle crash on Graceland Road. Supplemental information from police units on scene advised that there was a person heavily entrapped in a vehicle approximately 75 feet down into a ravine. The crash had occurred around 5:00 am. It took the driver nearly four hours to self extricate and climb the hillside to call for help. His pregnant girlfriend remained trapped in the car at the bottom of the hill.
Neshannock Township rescue personnel immediately went to work establishing rope systems into the ravine for access and equipment transport. A second due rescue unit from Station 1100 arrived shortly thereafter to assist with extrication. After more than one hour of intricate disentanglement, the patient was freed from the vehicle.
Once removed from the vehicle, personnel from Noga Ambulance Service, Medevac Ambulance Service, and STAT MedEvac air medical service stabilized and packaged the patient. The patient was then prepped and hoisted up the hillside before being flown by medical helicopter to St. Elizabeth Hospital in Youngstown, OH.
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