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Hauppauge FD/CVAC-overturn with entrapment on Veterans Highway

April 24, 2023, 1545 hours. The Hauppauge Fire Department is dispatched along with Commack Ambulance to a motor vehicle accident on Veterans Highway in the vicinity of Ledgewood Drive. Suffolk police were already on scene and advised that they had two subjects trapped within an overturned vehicle that had left the roadway on the westbound side. Hauppauge FD Heavy Rescue 3-8-9, Ladder 3-8-7, Quint 3-8-5, Engines, 3-8-3, 3-8-14, Fire Police and Fire Marshal Gottlieb responded. Firefighters used numerous tools to free the occupant/driver from the overturned van and then assisted CVAC in packaging and removing him. The victim was transported to the hospital. This was all complicated by the fact that numerous containers of yellow road striping paint within the vehicle opened and spilled, coating everything. Firefighters assisted Suffolk police in clearing trees and brush from around the van so that it could be uprighted and removed. Westbound Veterans Highway was reduced to a single lane during the operation.

Photos by Fire Marshal Gottlieb.

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