Pine Mountain Georgia Fire Department News

October 10, 2008
Firefighters Assist With Extrication

About 10:00 p.m. Saturday, October 4, James Goodman was pulling out of a driveway on Layfield Drive when he was blinded by the headlights of an on-coming car.

Instead of turning onto the road, Goodman missed the road and slid into a ditch. The ditch was nearly five feet deep and caused Goodman’s Nissan Pathfinder to overturn. The SUV came to rest with the left side doors against the side of the ditch and with the left front corner of the roof crumpled into the passenger compartment.

The steering column, front seats, crumpled driver’s door and crushed roof trapped Goodman in the truck. The passenger, Brigitt Bray, was able to escape the truck and went for help.

Pine Mountain firefighters quickly arrived on the scene.

Firefighters JR Owens and Andy Kober, who responded in Squad 12, were the first firefighters on the scene and entered the overturned Pathfinder to conduct patient assessment on Goodman while firefighter Roger Duke radioed the assessment to the responding Harris County EMS unit.

Firefighters Tim Edgar and Matt Martin, responding in Quint 1201, ascertained the condition of Bray before assisting in extricating Goodman.

The area was extremely dark, and the ladder on Quint 1201 was extended over the overturned Pathfinder with the halogen lights on the tip used to illuminate the scene.

Harris County paramedics David Lane and Shane Owen arrived on the scene and took over primary patient care.

To extricate Goodman, the steering column and parts of the seats had to be removed. Goodman was maneuvered from the front seat to the back seat and out the right rear door.

Both Goodman and Bray were treated at the scene and transported to the Columbus Medical Center.

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