DCurtis

Pictures of our MVA w/PIN from the other day. The vehicle as travelling southbound on the Saw Mill Parkway and flipped into the northbound lane. Res-Q-Jacks were used to stabalize the vehicle prior to the patient being extricated by PFD.
Incident Alert
Photos courtesy of EMTBravo member DCurtis.

I never post on here, but I'll just say this.
FDNY did an excellent job, and EMS really did solid work. The EMS guys first on scene did an expert job with triage and really started the rescue effort off right. There were several scene dedicated ALS and BLS units on scene within 10 mins and several ALS and BLS Transport units on scene not five minutes later, with more being dispatched every time units left the scene. I was sitting at my station watching the CAD for this (my regular unit was at the scene and no spares avail at the station) and they mobilized almost every unit in the north and north east Bronx. Not to mention, still maintain the normal workflow by back filling units and supervisors from both Queens and Manhattan.
Personal opinion, this could only have gone as well as it did because it was handled by FDNY. To pull the resources from Westchester Fire and EMS departments necessary to effectively manage this scene and maintain workflow would be a nightmare. Not to mention the on scene nightmare considering every department has their own, SOPs etc. FDNY has the advantage of having a large amount of people all on the same page with standard procedures for MCIs. If Westchester would be able to establish a MCI plan and SOPs that would have all the incoming agencys on the same page, acting in a unified manor, I'd say they could handle it . . but they don't.