Triples vs Triples

That Thursday night I got home from the fire about 11pm. We had Kennedy spend the night at Grandma Janas since we weren't sure when Id be home. She was off that next day PLUS our sitter was out of town so Kennedy was supposed to be with Chris in the morning to take her to school but he was out on the fire. It ended up working out well. They had a great girls night which included dinner at K's favorite place, Old Grist Mill. I was in bed just a few hours when we got paged out to a big wreck at 0300 in the morning. 

A semi headed northbound crossed the median, drove over the cable barrier and went sideways across the freeway where another semi pulling triples hit it right behind the cab disconnecting the semi from the trailers and sending the semi skidding sideways across the road. Both people had their seatbelts on and miraculously very minor injuries to one that was northbound and none to the driver that hit it.

The USF Reddaway is the one that crossed the median and the Fed Ex is the one that was headed southbound. This is all in the southbound lanes.

 (all these pictures are taken AFTER the patient is gone in the ambulance)

The USF Reddaway semi was hauling chainsaw oil and boards.. so we had oil ALL OVER from a lot of containers that had broken open. PLUS from something there were nails all over the freeway.

I was on fire protection. A lot of oil had gotten onto the other semis exhaust and had started smoking a bunch so I had a hose line pulled out just in case it started going.

(yeah that blurry person is me)

We had a lot of oil, glass, boards, nails and debris to clean up out of the road while waiting for the tow trucks to arrive. We had the freeway completely at a standstill.

Seatbelts save lives!

I had to leave at 4:30 am to go home and shower for work. Just as I was leaving UHP was getting out their drone to take a picture of the scene. Im glad they did because it was really hard to try and take a picture that showed the whole scene!

I stole it from their FB page.

It took forever to get everything hauled off the road and cleared. They had it down to one lane til after 1pm that next morning!