Driver extricated and airlifted to hospital
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Orondo Fire responded Friday morning at 8:20 am to the report of a semi accident 2 miles up McNeil Canyon Road. On arrival firefighters found a semi delivery truck with severe damage on its top down into the canyon.
The driver of the truck was entrapped in the wreckage. Two extrication crews worked 40 minutes to free the driver from the truck. The crews worked cutting and bending metal from opposite sides of the semi with jaws of life tools to access the driver in the middle, A guard rail piercing the cab which had to be cut and removed.
Once the driver was freed from the truck, he was carried up the hillside to a waiting ambulance who then transported the patient to the top of the hill where a helicopter was waiting to transport the patient to Central Washington Hospital. The patient was in critical condition at the scene of the accident.
Fourteen emergency responders arrived on the second alarm accident from Orondo Fire, Chelan Fire Rescue, Mansfield Fire, LCH Ambulance and Douglas County Sheriff’s Office as well as Douglas County Transportation. The sheriff is investigating the cause of the accident.
