No Charges Filed in Pa. Heavy Rescue Truck Crash
Source The News Eagle (Hawley, Pennsylvania)
A Hemlock Farms Volunteer Fire & Rescue vehicle was involved in an accident as it was on its way to the community entrance, early Saturday morning, Feb. 23.
Four persons aboard the fire truck were injured when the truck's movement went out of control, as it was reported to be leaving the private community to respond to an emergency.
In the process, a car heading the opposite way was struck, with no injuries resulting to the two occupants.
State Police Blooming Grove reported that the 1999 model Heavy Rescue fire truck was heading east on Hemlock Farms Road. The truck was at the intersection with Cherry Court when it began to spin in a clockwise direction, and at the same time move in a northeast direction.
The fire truck entered the westbound lane of Hemlock Farms Road. At the same time, a 2003 Honda Accord driven by Eric Klinsky, 20, of Anentura, FL, was traveling west on the same road, with four passengers. Klinsky traveled southwest to try and avoid a collision.
The right rear side of the fire truck impacted with the right rear side of the car. This was the final resting place of the car, straddling both lanes.
The fire truck's front right side struck street signs at the corner of Hemlock Farms Road and Cherry Court. The right side of the truck impacted an embankment just northeast of the intersection, and came to rest facing northwest.
Reid Fedorsin, 29, who is 2nd Assistant Chief, was operating the truck. He and his passengers, Captain Jesse Young, 22; John Kauff man, 35 and James Mason, 50, suff ered moderate injuries, police said.
They each have Lords Valley addresses.
The occupants of the fire truck were transported by Hemlock Farms Ambulance and Dingman Township Ambulance, to Bon Secours hospital in Port Jervis.
Trooper William Ferris said that there were no charges filed.
A message left for Hemlock Farms Chief Richard Hall for comment has not yet been returned.
According to the Hemlock Farms Fire & Rescue web site, their 1999 rescue vehicle is a KME model, weighing nearly 23 tons and is 32' 10" long, 10' 8" high. Is it listed as their Rescue-1 vehicle.
The Pike County fire and ambulance call log, made available to the media, reported that Hemlock Farms Fire & Rescue was called out at 4:47 a.m.
Saturday to assist at a motor vehicle crash on Interstate 84 eastbound. There was reported entrapment.
The call included dispatch of Hemlock's Rescue-1 and Engine-1, with other apparatus from Blooming Grove Fire Department and Tafton Fire Department.
An engine and rescue vehicle were subsequently called out from Dingman Township Fire Department for a crash at the entrance to Hemlock Farms community, at Hemlock Farms Road and Route 739. This was at 5:22 a.m.
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