Major crash shuts I-40 near I-240 with five injured


Audio|Source: Memphis Fire Department
02:52
Transcript:
Trick 13, which location? Dispatch, 93, 4-2 command. (name withheld) is stuck in traffic. You can disregard Truct 1313 and extend truck 2. They cannot get through traffic to make the scene. Check 23. Truck 133. District 13, just got the call. Checked 413. Track 13. The 13 is served for 3.11. Start me five total units. We have five patients at this time. Go ahead and start three additional ALS companies to come down the interstate. Check 10.3. 2312. And everybody from using 17, I've got three additional AOLF companies coming. This message is 40 Command. If you copy, I need truck two and two additional ALS companies and a total of five units. Checkpoint, Command. Advise all companies are going to have to come in off of Danny Thomas. into weather sound traffic with the entire interstate shut down. I'm behind it and what I'm running. How far up to the wreck are we from here? I don't know. If you want to grab your equipment and start coming down, y'all aren't going to be able to get through and you're not going to go anywhere so nothing is going to happen if you want to come to open and start helping. Okay, we're going to make it with you. some of the other companies. I'll read it off an accident at 40 Eastbound at correction 40 Westland at 240. Advice they're here. Inside a chart there to be. We're trying to make it. We're having a reverse the wrong way. Back out west on the out 40. 11th zone, we just got on there, stay. Let's go on the roadway. Okay. Coming down here, say, can you repeat?
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I-40, Memphis, TN
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