Two Columbia River Fire & Rescue paramedics returning to the station after transporting a patient were injured in a head-on collision.
Two Columbia River Fire & Rescue paramedics returning to the station after transporting a patient were injured in a head-on collision.
Two Columbia River Fire & Rescue paramedics were hospitalized Saturday after their ambulance was struck head-on by an impaired driver near Scappoose.
The crash happened around 2:00 a.m. as the crew was returning from a previous patient transport to Portland, and they were hit by an impaired, wrong-way driver.
Three people were transported to Portland hospitals by Scappoose Fire, and AMR, including the two-person paramedic crew involved in the collision, according to a Facebook post by The Scappoose Fire District.
At the time of the accident there was no patient in the back of the ambulance.
