Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue
TIGARD, Ore. — On Sunday morning Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue was called to the scene of a pickup truck in a tree at Highway 99 and Middleton Road near Sherwood. When crews arrived they found the truck approximately 10 feet up off the ground.
Firefighters used thermal imagers to scan the vehicle and the surrounding area around the tree to confirm that the truck was empty and the driver and/or passenger(s) had not been ejected during the crash. The thermal imagers did not pick up any heat ‘signatures,’ suggesting that it had been some time since the crash. A PGE lineman in a boom truck further validated that the truck was empty.
The details of how the truck came to rest in the tree remain a mystery at this time. The first 9-1-1 call reporting the situation came in at 7:33 a.m. when TVF&R responded, and a call to Providence Newberg Hospital revealed no patients overnight or early this morning related to a crash.
Hillsboro Towing was assessing the operations needed to remove the truck, and PGE was on scene due to safety concerns over a power line near the tree.