Rescue Alarm 10-7. At 20:29 hrs, Rescue Squad 8 was dispatched to assist Station 10 units on a vehicle collision with entrapment near 2411 Uniontown Road. At the time, a thunderstorm was passing through the area with a heavy rainfall. A few minutes later, Ambulance 89 was also dispatched to assist on the incident.

Paramedic 109 and Engine 102 were the first to arrive and found a single vehicle off the road and on its roof. Lieutenant M. Moser on Engine 102 quickly confirmed that two occupants were injured and trapped in the vehicle. Lieutenant Moser established "Uniontown Road Command" and requested a second medic unit.

Station 10 crews first worked to stabilize the vehicle. As Rescue Squad 8 arrived, both crews began to remove the driver and passenger side doors of the vehicle to extricate the occupants. The extrication was completed quickly and the patients were loaded into Paramedic 109 and Paramedic 69.

Due to the weather conditions, Maryland State Police Aviation was unavailable, so Paramedic 109 and Paramedic 69 transported both patients by land to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center. Units cleared within an hour.

Units: Paramedic 109, Engine 102, Engine 101, Utility 10-1 (New Windsor); Rescue Squad 8, Ambulance 89 (Union Bridge); Paramedic 69 (Pleasant Valley)