As the Year Closes Out…..

Cherry Hill Firefighters and EMTs respond to what may be the last serious car accident of 2007.

They were called to a reported motor vehicle accident in the early afternoon, around 1 PM, at the busy intersection of Route 70 & Greentree Roads for a motor vehicle accident with reported entrapment. They encountered two vehicles with serious front end damage and a total of three victims in both cars. As EMTs attended to the three victims, Firefighters worked to free one of them who had become pinned inside the vehicle because of the damage. Once free, all victims were transported to local hospitals for their injuries. Firefighters then secured all vehicles and cleaned up any fluids on the roadway.

1 Person Trapped in Accident

The Cherry Hill Fire Department responded at just after 4:00 pm to a reported motor vehicle accident on Cooper Landing Road with a person trapped in the vehicle. Firefighters arrived to find the accident in the parking lot of the Hampshire House Apartments. A driver of an SUV was in the parking lot of a bank located on Chapel Ave, adjacent to the apartment lot. The driver came through the fence seperating the lots and ended up on top of an empty parked car.

Firefighters first stabilized both vehicles while EMTs attended to the patient. After firefighters extricated the trapped driver of the SUV, she was then loaded into an awaiting Cherry Hill Fire Department ambulance and transported to Kennedy Memorial Hospital, which luckily happened to be across the street.

Busy Day on the Highway.....

Cherry Hill Firefighters and EMTs responded to a reported motor vehicle accident in the northbound lanes of Route 295, mile marker 34B, in the early afternoon of Monday, December 3rd, 2007. Dispatchers were receiving reports of a car carrier flipped over on top of other vehicles, trapped occupants and leaking fuel oils. On arrival, Firefighters encountered a flat bed trailer that had flipped over just after the off-ramp from Route 70. One car had become disengaged from the flat bed and were also on the highway. No drivers were trapped.

A small amount of fuel had spilled from the saddle tank of the flipped flat bed and had started making it's way down the embankment. The CHFD Hazardous Materials team just happened to be on the initial response and they were asked to assess the fuel leak. They oversaw controlling the leak and standing by as tow trucks uprighted the vehicles. This accident caused a several mile long back-up in the northbound lanes for several hours. Further back, firefighters that had just freed up from the first incident were called to a second accident at Route 295, under the Berlin Road overpass involving two cars. This accident was deemed minor and there were only minor injuries at both accidents which are under investigation by the NJ State Police.