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.

CHFD EMT Recognized for 28 Years of Service

At the Monday, November 26th Cherry Hill Township Council meeting, Cherry Hill Fire Department Emergency Medical Technician, Lynne Weinstein was recognized for her long service to Cherry Hill. Beginning in April 1979, Lynne became an EMT with the, since dissolved, CHEMS, or Cherry Hill Emergency Medical Service. During her tenure, Lynne served on various committees and as Board Secretary for some time. Lynne also endured, during her tenure, several organizational changes; ending with the integration of emergency medical services into the Cherry Hill Fire Department in 2003. Lynne’s involvement and support during this time made the integration smoother.

According to her colleagues, Lynne’s service as an EMT in Cherry Hill can be summed up by a single word: compassion. Lynne’s devotion as an Emergency Medical Technician was not only experienced by her patients, but also by her fellow EMTs and the emergency medical services as she took every effort to make positive changes for emergency responders. We wish Lynne well in all her future endeavors.

Cherry Hill Ladder Tower Rescues Tree Worker

A Ladder Tower Truck, Rescue Truck, Ambulance and a Battalion Chief were dispatched to the 100 block of Ashford Road in the Wexford Leas section of the to to a report of a tree service worker trapped sixty feet in the air in a disabled aerial lift truck at about 11:00AM. The crew from the ladder tower quickly evaluated the situation and carefully placed their truck in the driveway of the home so that it would be able to make the rescue from the tree truck that was off the roadway in the homeowner's yard. Since the area was not large enough to set up the Ladder Tower; the Rescue company provided lumber to support the outriggers of the ladder that were not on a solid surface. The ladder tower's crew quickly raised their platform to the tree service truck bucket and safely transferred the stranded worker to the ladder tower platform and brought him down without injury.