A SHAWNEE TWP., OHIO, QUINT rolled over “more than once” following a collision with a pickup truck Friday afternoon.
WTVG
The quint/tower was occupied only with a driver, Firefighter Dick Oder, 48, who has been in the FD for 24 years. He was bringing it back from a maintenance shop in a neighboring town when the pickup drove through a stop sign and into the side of the truck. The resulting crash sent both vehicles out of control with the aerial running onto a soft field where it flipped end-over-end one time and then went into a roll.
The pickup careened across the roadway rolling at least a half-dozen times. Both drivers were airlifted to hospital in Toledo where they are each in “serious but not life-threatening” condition. The aerial truck is a total loss.
Shawneed Township is near Lima.
WTVG-TV Toledo has the STORY.
WUPW-TV filed this video report:
Shawnee Twp. Fire Dept. WEBSITE.
Ladder 3 is a 1990 Grumman quint,
102 ft. tower with 1,500 gpm pump.
(Shawnee FD photo)
Recent Comments