DATE OF INCIDENT: 6/14/2009
INCIDENT TYPE: Special Rescue
INCIDENT ADDRESS: 400 North Monroe Street
CITY: Spokane
STATE: WA
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NARRATIVE: Today, June 14, 2009, the Spokane Fire Department responded at 2:02 PM to the Spokane River below the Post Street Bridge on a report of a man in the river. The Spokane Fire Departments Water Rescue Team and Technical Rope Rescue Team arrived on scene and found an adult male patient on the north side of the river who had fallen 30 - 40 feet from a ledge below the Post Street bridge landing on the concrete bridge supports at the river's edge. The Water Rescue Team was utilized as down stream safety support for crews working near the river and the High Angle Rope Team established a rope haul system and raised the patient to safety after he had been stabilized by Fire Department Paramedics. He was transported to the trauma center and his condition was not known at the time of this report.
Fire crews in staging at this incident responded to a second individual trapped on the south side of the river near the Monroe Street Bridge. This person had climbed down a concrete embankment to view the river and could not get back up the wall. Fire crews utilized a rope to secure the individual and lifted him up the wall. This person was not injured.
PROBABLE CAUSE: N/A
DAMAGE EXTENT: N/A
DOLLAR LOSS:
FIREFIGHTER RESPONSE: 25
MUTUAL AID: None Given
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