Multiple crashes block ambulance near Abita Springs

Heard on: St. Tammany Parish LA Regional EMS Dispatch

00:59

This transcript is auto-generated from live dispatch audio and may be incomplete or inaccurate. It is not an official report and may change.

00:00

We're going to be clear with one.

00:01

However, we're stuck on scene.

00:03

We got fire blocking us in and the accident's blocking us from going forward.

00:09

You can find the way out.

00:14

Seventeen 60 . Can you send another unit, please?

00:18

That's going to be 49.

00:20

49, try to get out to your accident.

00:21

There's another one right there by the station.

00:26

49, we're going to be unable to go on 36.

00:29

We can turn around and go down 59 and circle.

00:32

But we're waiting on fire to move a truck so we can get out of here.

00:37

All right, so you're gonna go up 59 back down 21?

00:43

I can't go that way.

00:45

I'm blocked in by the accident.

00:47

I can't go anywhere west, so I can't get up 59.

00:50

But I can go up 59 down to Darktown, come back up the other way.

00:57

1760, how many patients do you have on scene?

2026-10-25 15:17 UTC

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LA-59 & LA-36, Abita Springs, LA 70420

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As discussed during the dispatch call, an EMS unit reported being stuck at a crash scene near LA-59 and LA-36, with fire apparatus and the accident blocking access. Dispatch requested another unit to respond to a second crash near the station while the first unit waited for fire to move a vehicle so they could leave the area.