Wappingers (Dutchess) Fall Victim 08-15-07

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Date: 8/15/2007

Time: 1133

Location: Knights of Columbus, 2660 E. Main St.

Frequency: DC911

Units Operating: Wappingers 68-55, 68-45, Mobile Life

Description Of Incident: Subject fallen approx 50 feet down embankment

Writer: Ole129K

1133 - Responding unit request availablity of medevac

1133 - Mobile Life unit on scene, confirming pt down embankment, will require use of ladder truck to extricate patient, medic will be on foot, walking down to access patient will take at least 15 mins, will advise on medevac

1139; Dc911 advises Wappinger Command that Air 2 is on standby. Wappinger Command reports they are awaiting determination from Medic for launch decision.

1140; Per MLSS Medic, pt stable enough for ground transport to SFH, medevac to stand down

1207; Patient extricated

Article from PojoNews;

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Worker who fell off water pipe was taken to hospital

By Sarah Bradshaw

Poughkeepsie Journal

WAPPINGERS FALLS -- A man who fell off a water pipe that crosses the Wappinger Creek near the hydro-electric power plant was taken to the hospital, police said.

At about 11 a.m. today, a worker was fixing a wall that was eroding when he slipped and fell about 25 feet to the bank below, said police Lt. John Birdsell. He landed near the village's waterfall, located near East Main Street.

Due to injuries and the steep incline of the embankment surrounding the creek, the man had to be lifted in a fire truck bucket, Birdsell said. He was taken to Saint Francis Hospital in Poughkeepsie at about 12:30 p.m., police said. He was conscious during the rescue however, the scope of his injuries are unknown.

The pipe is called a penstock. It takes in water from the creek and uses it to produce electricity with modern generators. Then the energy is fed into the common electrical grid.

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Sounds like the person fell from that big green pipe in the flooding pictures from a while back that caused so much drama here.

Edited August 17, 2007 by Truck4