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Michigan EMS leaders share the challenges in locating, extricating and transporting victims of snowmobile crashes
A man died and a woman was injured when their vehicle went off an 80-foot cliff
LAFD USAR members worked to lift the forklift off the worker
A shopper described the scene as chaotic when an SUV crashed into the Canton Township store’s main entrance
PG&E had to secure power lines before Santa Clara County firefighters could begin extricating the patient
A 16-year-old driver escaped seriosu injury after his vehicle crashed into a High Point house
Two of the four patients were pinned inside the car after they tried to go around a railroad crossing in Harvey
Paramedics faced a complex rescue on a popular trail near Cajon Pass
Two people were injured after a eucalyptus tree fell on five vehicles in Golden Gate Park
A speeding SUV went off the road and became stuck, off the ground, between trees in the Longmeadow crash
Four people were trapped inside after their car snapped a utility pole and came to rest against the roof of a house in Pulaski.
A group of hikers spotted the pickup truck down a Los Angeles County canyon
New Castle County paramedics worked with several to extricate, treat several patients
Matthew Reum was pinned inside his pickup truck underneath an I-94 bridge, surviving on rainwater
First responders in Orleans were dispatched to a man trapped under a piece of heavy machinery at a construction company
A driver was killed after their car fell from the fourth floor of the Grandview Medical Center parking garage
Matthews Fire & EMS said the victims were in “critical, but stable condition”
Lynchburg first responders faced a car, 50 feet down an embankment, upside down on railroad tracks
Parker County Hospital District paramedics faced an amputation and having to perform bilateral finger thoracostomies
Two vehicles ended up overturned inside a Boston Market in Saugus
A Portland streetcar driver and passenger were injured in a collision with a light rail train
Two people had to be extricated from the car after both vehicles crashed into a Long Beach restaurant
First responders in Swansea had to stabilize the house before removing the car
A vehicle collided with a King County Metro bus, sending it into a building in the Belltown neighborhood
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Smoke from wetland fires mixed with fog to create a “super fog,” causing several crashes on I-55 near New Orleans
First responders in Cincinnati had difficulty reaching the SUV after it had been pushed past the crossing
A tractor-trailer driver was killed after a train carrying coal derailed and fell onto a highway near Pueblo