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 At 2206 on 3 August, CHFD was dispatched along with Bangs Ambulance for a MVA with injuries at the intersection of Warren and Hanshaw Rds.  263 (Wolf) arrived on scene moments later to find one vehicle off the road, into a tree with one unresponsive patient entrapped.  202, 241, and 262 arrived, made access to the patient, and began extrication.  The drivers' side door was removed and the patient packaged and handed-off to Bangs Ambulance.  The patient ws flown to a trauma center from the Ithaca Airport.  14 Cayuga Heights firefighters were on scene. 

July brought numerous motor-vehicle related calls including two accidents in 24 hours into the same telephone pole, wires down on a vehicle only one pole north of the battered pole, a vehicle off the road on Rt. 13, a car through a garage and into a ravine,  a car-pedestrian on Warren Rd. and a rollover (also) on Warren Rd.  Below are an assortment of pictures from those calls.  

At 2310 on 20 June, CHFD was dispatched for a MVA with one car rolled-over on Winthrop Dr.  241, 202, 261, and 262 arrived on scene to find one vehicle, on its roof, with the driver entrapped.  The ALS crew from 241 began patient care while the crew from 202 removed the passenger-side door.  The patient was extricated, packaged, and flown to a trauma center from the nearby soccer field. 

Units Responding: 202, 203, 241, 243, 261, 262, Bangs Ambulance, Mercy Flight

At 1609 on 5 May, Lansing requested Cayuga Heights cover a call for a man in a tree while they were at a serious MVA.  262 and L231 arrived on scene to find a man approximately 30 feet in the air, sitting on a tree branch holding a parrot.  The individual was uninjured but unable to get himself out of the tree.  Due to the location being in the courtyard, the aerial ladder was unusable.  E202 was requested to the scene for its rope rescue equipment.  A 35' ground ladder was used to get to the roof.  The patient was secured with a webbing harness and a 2:1 highpoint as a safety line and was able to crawl down a roof ladder from the tree to the apartment roof.  The bird was rescued unharmed as well. 

At just before 1600 on 19 April CHFD was alerted for a car versus pedestrian.  202 and 241 AOS to find a skateboarder struck by a vehicle.  Due to the severity of the patients injuries, a helicopter was requested.  202 secured a landing zone and the patient was flown to a trauma center. 

At the same time, Truck 231 assisted in the removal of a female juvenile from a tree in Lansing.  Not a cat.  A person.  

Article from IthacaJournal.com