Grays Hill Works Vehicle off the Whale Branch
By Captain Jim Still
Feb 29, 2008 - 9:54:36 PM

At about 3:00 pm today, E822 was dispatched to a vehicle accident on Trask Parkway at the Whale Branch Bridge.  While enroute, updated information put one vehicle in the river with possible entrapemnt.  Lt. Stan Ganshow then had the Burton Fire District Water Rescue Team dispatched for possible water operations and E824 was called for LZ Operations.

Lt. Scott Hunter of the Sheldon Fire District arrived on scene while E822 was enroute and reported one vehicle under the bridge, but not in the water on the Sheldon side of the river.  The Water Rescue Team and LifeStar were cancelled by command at this time.

The vehicle was traveling southbound on Trask Parkway when it left the road just prior to the bridge and traveled through the guard rail and approximately 300 feet down an enbankment before coming to rest just before a bridge pylon.  The driver of the vehicle was removed from the vehicle and packaged for the carry back up the enbankment to the north bound lanes for transport to Beaufort Memorial Hospital via BCEMS3.

Units on scene: E822, 802, 804, 805, Sheldon Sqd41, 401, BCEMS3, BCEMS26, BCSO, SCHP