Early Wednesday morning a Environmental Rescue Assignment was dispatched to Pittsburg Valley Road - Manor Township, for a male trapped between a tree and a portable saw mill. Engine 6-2-1, Rescue 6-5, Ambulance 5-3 and Medic 6-12-5 were dispatched.

Engine 6-2 and Chief 6-2 arrived to find a male pinned between a tree and a portable saw mill trailer, which had slid down a embankment.

Reverse direction winch operation

The crews from 6-5 and 6-2 shored and chained the rear of the trailer to additional anchors to keep it from sliding any farther down the embankment. Also used was a reverse direction winch operation to move the trailer uphill and to free the patient. Which was transported to the local hospital.

Over View

Tree and Trailer

Rear of the trailer was additionally chained

Crews freed the patient 14 minutes after the arrival of the Rescue and cleared in approx. 45 minutes.