OVERTURNED TRACTOR-TRAILER

Date & Time: Wednesday, June 6, 2007 – 12:03 p.m.

Location: Route 1 Freeway Northbound, north of Whitehead Road, Lawrence Township, N.J.

Details: Slackwood’s Rescue 21, Lawrence Road’s Rescue 22, Lawrenceville’s Rescue 23, and a Lawrence Township EMS ambulance responded for an overturned tractor-trailer with unknown entrapment. Crews arrived to find the rig had jackknifed and flipped onto its side across both northbound lanes. Passing motorists stopped and had helped the 38-year-old driver from the wreckage prior to emergency personnel reaching the scene. The man was not hurt. Rescue 22’s crew stood by with a 1.75-inch hoseline while Rescue 21’s crew assessed the condition of the overturned trailer and applied speedie-dry to the road to contain spilled diesel fuel and other fluids Rescue 22 was back in quarters by 2:27 p.m. During the incident, while crews from all three Lawrence Township fire companies were committed on Route 1, Engine 14-1 from Hamilton Fire Co. and Ladder Tower 31 from Prospect Heights Fire Co. from Ewing Township relocated into Lawrence and stood by at the Lawrence Road firehouse.

Responding LRFC Personnel

Rescue 22

Officer: Capt. Ed Budzinski	Driver: Paid Driver Robert Santello
Crew: Ff. Shaun Dlabik	Crew: Ff. Steven Hodgdon
Crew: Ff. Richard Laird III	Crew: Ff. Martin Burch

All photos copyright (C) 2007 by Robert Santello