09/29/2004

12:30pm

Bensalem Twp., Bucks County, Pa.

Dead end of Tremont Av. and the Railroad Tracks

 

Units were dispatched to the area of the Bob Evans Restaurant at 4603 E. Street Rd. in the Trevose section of Bensalem Twp. for a male who had fallen down a small cliff and become trapped. The male, who had been walking along some railroad tracks, was trapped in some mud at the base of a drainage pipe up to his thigh area approx. a mile down the tracks from E. Street Rd. Units relocated to the dead end of Tremont Av. and the railroad tracks and began searching for the male. Bucks Co. 911 kept in phone contact with the male units rescuers were able to located him. He was located and removed by firefighters using a stokes basket and brought to where EMS was staged and then removed to Frankford Torresdale Hospital in NE Philadelphia for observation.

 

Units involved:

Trevose Fire Co. Rescue 4/Special Service 84

Nottingham Fire Co. Engine 65/Ladder 65

EMS Battalion 186

Medic Unit 185

Bensalem Twp. Fire Marshall's Office

Bensalem Twp. Police Dept.