Vehicle hangs off bridge near I-85 in North Carolina, Rowan County NC
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TrafficAs discussed during the dispatch call, emergency crews responded to a traffic accident on I-85 near Long Ferry Road in North Carolina. A caller reported a vehicle hanging off a bridge. Fire, rescue, and highway patrol units arrived on scene. Radio traffic indicated a single vehicle was resting on a guardrail over a river, with uncertainty about whether it had gone fully off the bridge. Command was established as units worked to secure the scene.
Audio|Heard on: Rowan County Fire and EMS, Salisbury Fire
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03:34
Transcript:
00:00
Urban Station 3464, Station 91, DC 11, Ladder 1, Rescue 2, Battalion 87, Medic 852, QRV 81.
00:08
Traffic accident with unstable vehicle, near Long Ferry Road.
00:14
Caller reporting there's a vehicle hanging off the bridge.
00:18
Highway patrols aware are going to be operating on Ops 12 at 1638.
00:27
All right, Battalion 1 responding.
00:28
In place of DC Eleven.
00:30
Copy the time.
00:35
Fulton County Fire responding.
00:38
Copy Rescue Two.
00:40
Nine Eleven route.
00:42
Nine Eleven.
00:44
Six Forty in route.
00:47
Six Fourteen.
00:52
Six Glendale Avenue, near Glendale Avenue and West U Street.
01:00
Thirty-eight year old female timeout 16 thirty-nine.
01:05
Twenty-one county being en route from quarters.
01:14
Plant flow is responding.
01:16
Rescue 0912.
01:25
Randall units, updated location.
01:28
Eighty-two thousand block northbound eighty-five.
01:30
Eighty-two thousand block northbound I-85, right before the county line.
01:39
Big 40, copy.
01:43
Nine hundred and twenty is true.
01:51
Forty on twelve.
01:57
The county one's on twelve.
02:01
Great, me too.
02:02
Rescue sixty-four.
02:05
Rescue sixty-four.
02:18
Nine eleven on twelve.
02:24
Rich sixty-four and twelve.
02:31
Running 640s on scene, confirming a single vehicle on a guardrail hanging off the side of the river bridge.
02:41
640 will have command.
02:44
Copy, 640 on scene, single vehicle hanging on the guardrail over the water with command at 1644.
02:57
Six forty-two to 0640, you inside lane or outside?
03:06
Six hundred and 40 to six hundred and forty-two.
03:08
Go ahead.
03:11
Need you to take lane one.
03:13
Ladder one.
03:15
Also take lane one and two.
03:18
What we have right now is a vehicle on a dolly that is currently hanging.
03:27
We are not aware 100% if the vehicle went off the bridge or not.
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Location mentioned:
I-85, North Carolina
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