Ejection in SE 316th crash; patients airlifted to Auburn

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Ejection in SE 316th crash; patients airlifted to Auburn

A Tesla and Ford Focus collided near SE 316th in King County, with one vehicle hitting a brick wall. Multiple patients were injured, including an ejection; patients were transported to Auburn Airport for airlift.

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Incident Timeline

just before 1 a.m. local time on Saturday, Oct. 24

Overnight two-sedan collision in Auburn’s Lea Hill neighborhood

Just before the early-morning hours, two sedans carrying five people collided near the intersection of 112th Avenue Southeast and Southeast 316th Place in Auburn’s Lea Hill area. One occupant was killed at the scene, two others suffered serious injuries, and two more had injuries described as non-life-threatening, as police later investigated whether impairment by one or more drivers contributed to the crash.
11:46 p.m.

Initial dispatch reports serious crash with ejection and unconscious patient

Dispatchers alert fire units to a serious two-vehicle crash involving a Tesla and a Ford Focus near Southeast 316th and 112th Avenue Southeast, reporting that one vehicle has struck a brick wall. Crews are told there is at least one unconscious patient with possible agonal respirations, multiple other injured patients, and a reported ejection, and they immediately begin responding while command starts considering using Auburn Airport as a landing zone and checks on airlift availability.

00:52

King WA Fire-Tac Group Calls

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00:00

Engine 03:34 .

00:01

Is there a car wreck in our area?

00:02

We've got a vehicle accident southeast 316th and 01:12 .

00:06

Southeast.

00:07

Yeah, oh yeah, that's that call we're just clearing our call right now.

00:10

Show us around, please. Copy.

00:11

Fire engine 334, engine 334.

00:13

Check on the availability of the stairwell, please.

00:15

Copy, engine 334, engine 336, ladder 331, medic 6.

00:19

It's going to be, I believe, a two-vehicle accident.

00:22

Tesla and a Ford Focus.

00:25

One hit a brick wall.

00:26

We have one unconscious, possible agonal, with other injuries to other patients.

00:33

And it looks like we did have an ejection.

00:36

Engine 334, do you have a landing zone in mind?

00:38

Auburn Airport.

00:39

Copy. Fire 3, Battalion 331.

00:41

Go ahead. Can you check on the availability of air lift? We're doing so.

00:44

All right, 331, can you add me to the accident with Mexico?

00:47

Battalion 331, air lift.

00:49

There would be a thirty-one minute ETA out of Olympia.

00:52

Weather pending.
11:52 p.m.

First crews arrive, find heavy-damage two-car crash and multiple critical patients

Engine 334 arrives to find a heavy-mechanism two-car collision with one critically injured patient ejected into the middle of the road and the two vehicles on the east side of the roadway. Ladder 331 arrives and establishes 112 Command, reporting two red (critical) and two yellow (less critical) patients, requesting an additional medic unit and triage, and directing that airlift be launched to Auburn Airport as Battalion 331 assumes command and begins coordinating with airlift on patient weights and the possibility of a second helicopter.

01:28

King WA Fire-Tac Group Calls

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00:00

Received, cycle the power, elevator two.

00:01

All right, three engine 334.

00:03

Engine 334.

00:04

On location, two car heavy mechanism.

00:06

One red patient ejected in the middle of the road.

00:09

Other two cars are on the east side of the road.

00:12

We'll be checking for injuries.

00:16

Power is being cycled, elevated to.

00:18

Fire 3, ladder 331's on scene, establishing 112 command, map post B mobile.

00:24

Copy 112.

00:25

Ladder 346 driver, go to state house one direct.

00:27

112 command, medic 611.

00:29

Fire 3,

00:30

112 command, two reds, two yellows at this time.

00:32

Can we get an additional medic and one additional triage?

00:35

Copy, one additional medic and one triage.

00:38

And Fire 3 from 112 command, let's go ahead and launch air lift to Auburn airport.

00:42

Copy. Fire 3, Battalion 331's on scene and I'll be assuming 112 command.

00:47

Command post will be in the captain's apparatus.

00:49

Copy. Fire 3 from 112, when you're on with air lift, can you check for a 2nd bird if they have one available if you need to.

00:54

Copy. All right, Fire 3112, command updated.

00:57

Patient count: two red, one striped, one yellow.

00:59

Ladder 33, Battalion 331, I was doing 112 command.

01:02

112, 331, got one yellow patient.

01:05

Got Engine 336 will handle that.

01:08

334 has one red in a black sedan.

01:12

Ladder 331 will take the one on the tag.

01:15

On 01:12 . Copy.

01:20

One twelve, okay.

01:22

Air lift is asking the approximate weight of the two patients that they need to take.

01:26

I'll get you a weight.

01:27

Stand by.
11:57 p.m.

Airlift helicopters requested as crews triage and extricate patients

Command reports that both critical patients weigh about 215 pounds as airlift coordination continues, and dispatch confirms one helicopter launching from Olympia with a 30‑minute estimated arrival and a second from Arlington pending a weather check, both headed to Auburn Airport. On the blocked roadway, crews guide incoming medical units through the congestion, complete extrication of a critically injured adult male, assign a yellow patient to an aid unit, request additional assignments and a BLS unit for the airport, and confirm that two helicopters will meet the ambulances at the landing zone.

01:45

King WA Fire-Tac Group Calls

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00:00

Both patients weigh approximately 215 pounds.

00:03

Copy 02:15 .

00:04

One twelve command, fire three.

00:06

Go ahead. One airlift is launching from Olympia with a 30 min ETA.

00:10

The 2nd one will be out of Arlington, but they're checking on weather.

00:13

Copy. One twelve command, 8331 level one.

00:16

Eight 331 , you are going to have one yellow patient.

00:20

Come to the scene and we'll load them up in your rig.

00:22

Eight 331 copies.

00:23

One twelve command,

00:24

MSO 111 . MSO one coming to my command post to a face to face.

00:30

MSO one.

00:31

Medical 11 from Echo One.

00:32

Echo from Medical 11.

00:33

When you guys turn up 112 heading south, go as far as you can.

00:37

The road's completely blocked.

00:38

If you move forward with your stretcher, we got that adult male that's red for you.

00:42

They just extricated.

00:43

Medical 11, okay, we're just pulling up now, level one.

00:45

Medical 11, hold short there for just a 2nd .

00:47

We're going to move a rig and we'll get you where that aid car is.

00:50

11 holding.

00:51

Eight 331 driver from Crown.

00:53

Fire three engine 336 .

00:54

Can you give one additional assignment please? Copy one additional assignment.

00:58

Fire three MSO one.

00:59

MSO one on fire three.

01:00

Three from MSO one.

01:01

MSO one going.

01:02

Do we get the status on the secondary? Are they going to fly?

01:04

I'm still waiting on a callback.

01:05

I'll try giving them a call, see if they have an update.

01:08

Copy, thank you. This is one fire three.

01:10

Go ahead. The Arlington airlift is going to be launching.

01:12

They have a 40-minute ETA.

01:14

Copy, thank you. That'll be Auburn Airport too.

01:15

I copy.

01:16

Fire three, come

01:17

in. Come in, go ahead. Can you dispatch a BLS unit to the airport? Copy.

01:21

Three three six from command.

01:22

Three three six.

01:23

Your triage is on scene, coming your way.

01:25

Three three six, received.

01:26

Fire three is at 332 .

01:27

Engine 332,

01:29

just want to confirm our airlift will be at the Auburn airport.

01:32

Affirm, you should be en route to the Auburn airport.

01:34

Copy that. Engine 332 from 112 command.

01:36

Go for 332.

01:37

We'll have two birds coming to Auburn airport.

01:40

We have two. Copy that, two.

01:42

Fire 3, medic 6, transporting to the landing zone.

01:44

Medic 6 received.
12:17 a.m.

All crash victims loaded into ambulances and transported toward Auburn Airport

On scene, MSO1 and crews maneuver ambulances past other apparatus on the blocked road so that stretchers can reach the patients. Command reports that Medic 11 and Medic 6 are transporting the two red (critical) patients to the landing zone at Auburn Airport, while a second yellow patient has been loaded into a trauma ambulance and is also being transported, allowing command to confirm that all patients from the crash have left the scene and to cancel a second requested triage unit.

00:43

King WA Fire-Tac Group Calls

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00:00

Medical 11, if you pull forward here, I think we can sneak you by the tri-med without moving it.

00:03

MSO1, Medical 11, go ahead.

00:04

I think we can sneak you by the ambulance here.

00:07

Copy, we'll pull forward.

00:08

Command from MSO1. Command from MSO1.

00:10

Fire three, from MSO one.

00:12

MSO one, go ahead.

00:13

Medic eleven and medic six are transporting patients one and two that are both red to the LZ at this time.

00:19

Third, I'm sorry, the 2nd yellow patient loaded in trauma and they're transported as well.

00:23

You can mark all patients being transported.

00:25

Copy all patients transported.

00:27

One twelve command, fire three.

00:30

One twelve command.

00:31

There was a 2nd triage that was requested on this accident.

00:35

I'm just going to advise all patients were transported.

00:37

Just confirming, do you want to cancel the 2nd one or is that one still needed?

00:41

Cancel triage, 2nd triage, thank you.

00:43

Received.
12:22 a.m.

Command stands down at crash scene as helicopters arrive at Auburn Airport

MSO1 and Medic 11 confirm they are en route from the accident scene to Auburn Airport with patients while dispatch notes that command information will be passed to units at the landing zone. A short time later, 112 Command is formally disbanded and the scene is turned over to Auburn police, with fire crews going back in service as available, while at the airport the first airlift helicopter lands and MSO1 is advised that the second helicopter has about a 25‑minute estimated arrival.

00:40

King WA Fire-Tac Group Calls

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00:00

Fire three, this one. MSO one, go ahead.

00:02

I'll be en route from the accident scene to the airport.

00:03

Received.

00:04

Let's pull command information 332 .

00:09

Fire three, medical eleven to Auburn airport.

00:10

Medical eleven, received.

00:11

Fire 3112 command.

00:13

One twelve command, go ahead.

00:14

Command is going to be disbanded.

00:15

We'll be leaving the scene to APD.

00:17

Crews will go in service at their discretion.

00:18

Received, disbanding command, 00:27 .

00:21

Fire three, engine 336 .

00:23

Engine 03:36 , go ahead.

00:24

We'll be returning out of service from manpower.

00:27

Received. Fire three, engine 01:12 , go ahead.

00:28

Received.

00:29

Fire three, MS one.

00:30

MS one, fire three.

00:31

First air lift is on the ground.

00:32

Received. MSO one or engine 300 and thirty-two and five three.

00:35

Go for MSO one.

00:36

It's a twenty-five minute ETA for that 2nd or left.

00:38

Copy. We just talked to the other pilot here.
Later

Police investigation focuses on impairment and keeps Lea Hill roadway closed for hours

After fire command is terminated, Auburn police keep the roadway near the crash closed in both directions for several hours while their traffic unit documents the scene and investigates the cause. Investigators state that one person died at the scene, four others were transported with injuries ranging from serious to non-life-threatening, and that impairment by drugs or alcohol is suspected as a possible contributing factor, though no specific charges or identities are immediately released.