Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Richmond Fire Performs Technical Rescue

Richmond Fire units were dispatched at 1352 on April 19th to 2500 W. Broad Street, at the Science Museum of Virginia for a traumatic injury to a worker on the roof. Fire units arrived on scene to discover a contractor on the roof doing some type of roof repair. The patient is believed to have had a medical situation. Q-5 laddered the building and Rescue 2 placed the patient in a stokes basket. Q-5 was able to lower the patient to the ground where Richmond Ambulance Authority was waiting to transport the patient.