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Jackman Moose River Fire
Department
2003
Emergency Calls
Call #16: 06-20-2003 A seriously damaged truck sits on
the Moose River Bridge in Jackman following an early morning crash. All of the cab of the truck sustained
serious damage except for the drivers seat area. The driver was very, very lucky.
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* 2003 EMERGENCY CALLS TO
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33. 12/27/2003 Smoke in a building Main Street (U.S. Route 201), Jackman. Something plastic had been placed on the
furnace heat exchanger. The heat
caused the plastic item to melt which filled the house with toxic smoke.
32. 12/10/2003 Truck crash Main Street (U.S. Route 201), Sandy Bay Township.
A tractor-trailer truck loaded with oak boards went off the road
into the ditch. The truck spun
around scattering the load of boards several hundred feet in the road and
in the ditch. The tractor of the
tractor-trailer truck was heavily damaged and the driver of the truck was
hurt. From the time of the accident
until the heavily damaged truck and boards were finally removed was nearly
10 hours.
31. 12/10/2004 Car off the road into the trees
Long Pond Road (Route 15), Jackman.
For whatever reason the driver of the car went off the road and into
the trees. The driver and her three
passengers were not injured.
30. 12/04/2003 Log truck rollover Spencer Road, Appleton Township. The truck went off the logging road and
rolled over on its side, temporarily trapping the driver in the truck. He suffered only minor injuries.
29. 12/02/2003 SUV rollover Pleasant Street, Moose River.
An SUV slid off the snow covered road and rolled over stopping on
its roof. Fortunately, neither the
driver nor the passenger was injured.
28. 11/30/2003 SUV off the road and crashed Main Street (Route 201), Sandy Bay Township.
A vehicle slid off the snow-covered road and crashed into
ledge. Although the vehicle sustained
some substantial damage, the driver was not hurt.
27. 11/25/2003 Vehicle off the road Route 201,
Johnson Mountain Township.
A vehicle spun around and slipped off the road backwards into the
ditch. A passerby reported a vehicle
accident with no other details, thus generated a full response from the
fire department and the local ambulance.
The vehicle was not damaged and there were no injuries.
26. 11/13/2003 Rescue injured hunter in
off the Holeb Road (logging road), Dennistown Plantation.
A hunter climbing into a tree stand fell on to the ground and broke
his pelvis. Firefighters assisted
Jackman Area Volunteer Ambulance Corps members in carrying the injured hunter
out of the woods.
25. 11/11/2003 Tractor Trailer rollover Main Street (Route 201), Sandy Bay Township.
Wet snow was falling making the road treacherous. The truck slid off
the road and tipped over on its side in the ditch. The driver received only a couple of cuts
on his hand.
24. 10/22/2003 Chimney Fire Sandy Stream Road, Moose River.
23. 09/29/2003 Fire alarm activation Main Street, Jackman. The alarm system was being tested but the
testers failed to notify the security agency that monitors the system. Thus when the fire alarm went off, the
security agency notified the fire departments dispatch center and the fire
department was dispatched.
22. 09/07/2003 Vehicle accident Route 201, Johnson Mountain Township.
Late at night, a moose came out into the road and the driver veered
off the road to avoid hitting the moose.
The vehicle went into the ditch along the side of the road, hit a
culvert and an embankment, went airborne, came back down in to ditch, and
then came out of the ditch and went across the road. The driver had very minor injuries. He was lucky that his vehicle was equipped
with an air bag, as the air bag saved him from suffering severe
injuries. He was not wearing his
seat belt.
21. 08/18/2003 SUV rollover Holeb Road, Forsyth Township.
A SUV rolled over 11 miles in on the Holeb Road, a major logging road. The driver of the vehicle could not be
found.
20. 08/16/2003 Reported tree on a power line,
with the tree being on fire Route 15, Rockwood Strip Township.
The report came in initially without giving the township. When the fire chief requested more info
from the dispatcher, she stated Rockwood Strip Township.
At that point the fire chief told the dispatcher to notify the
Rockwood Volunteer Fire Department to handle the incident.
19. 08/13/2003 Log truck rollover Route 201, Johnson Mountain Township.
A tractor trailer truck carrying dry cement forced the logging truck
off the road. The logging truck hit
the guard rail, then swerved sideways back in to the road, tipped over, and
the load of logs spilled out in to the road. The road was completely blocked for some
time.
18. 08/10/2003 Reported tree on a power line Main Street (Route 201), Sandy Bay Township.
There are no power lines in this area; only phone lines. And the tree has been laying on the phone
line for several months.
17. 07/28/2003 Vehicle rollover Long Pond Road (Route 15), Jackman. The car drifted off the right side of the
road onto the soft shoulder. The
driver turned the steering wheel back sharply to the left, and the car came
sliding across the road sideways into the ditch. When the car struck the ditch it rolled
over at least one time and landed upside down in the ditch. The driver was injured.
16. 06/20/2003 Truck accident Moose River
Bridge, Main Street (Route 201), Jackman In what can be described as a
repeat performance of a truck accident that occurred August 29, 2002, a
truck loaded with 45 rolls of newsprint paper approached the bridge too
fast and crashed into the bridge spilling 17 of the rolls of paper into the
river. In all it took over 7 hours
to remove the rolls of paper from the river and the truck and debris from
the bridge.
15. 04/25/2003 ATV accident Gander Brook Road, Dennistown Plantation. A driver of an ATV, who had been
drinking, went off the road and into the ditch flipping the ATV over. The driver sustained serious injuries,
and after receiving initial treatment at the Jackman Region Health Center, was flown by LifeFlight helicopter
to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor.
14. 04/21/2003 Out of control permit burn Giroux Street, Moose River.
A gentleman with a burning permit to burn grass and brush had two
areas burning at the same time. One
of the areas was producing flames that were 25 to 30 feet high, so a neighbor
reported that the fire was out of control.
13. 04/06/2003 Cargo truck rollover Main Street (Route 201), Jackman. After hitting a series of bumps in the
road, the driver of the truck was unable to regain control of the truck and
the truck went off the road, struck a berm in the ditch (which destroyed
the tractor portion of the truck), and ended up lying on its side in the
ditch. The driver was very lucky and
only had minor injuries.
12. 03/21/2003 Alarm activation Forest
Hills Consolidated School, Jackman.
One of the circulator pumps for the boiler overheated and filled the
boiler room with smoke. The smoke
spread into adjacent rooms and activated a smoke detector.
11. 03/18/2003 Chimney fire Nadeau
Street, Jackman. Firefighters
extinguished the fire in the chimney and determined that no fire had spread
from the chimney in to the house.
10.
03/05/2003 Logging truck rollover Route 201, Johnson Mountain
Township. A loaded logging truck,
going too fast for the slippery road conditions, went off the right side of
the road, rolled over on to the drivers side of the vehicle, spilling the
entire load of logs in the road. The
driver was pinned in the vehicle requiring the use of both JMRFDs Jaws of
Life and West Forks Volunteer Fire Departments Jaws of Life to free the
driver from the truck. The driver
suffered only minor injuries.
9. 02/28/2003 Snowmobile accident Johnson Mountain Township.
Two snowmobiles collided, with one snowmobiler sustaining moderate
injuries.
8. 02/21/2003 Single vehicle accident Main Street (Route 201), Jackman. A single vehicle spun around in the road
and slid off the road backwards striking a utility pole. The driver suffered minor injuries.
7. 02/17/2003 Report of smoke across Big Wood Lake, Attean Township.
A lakeside resident called to report smoke on the other side of the
lake in the vicinity of some camps, but the smoke was from a campfire on
the lake being used by ice fishermen.
6. 02/05/2003 Single vehicle rollover Main Street (Route 201), Jackman. Before JMRFD arrived on scene passers by
stopped and rolled the vehicle back over and the owner drove it away.
5. 02/04/2003 Single vehicle rollover Route
201, Parlin Pond Township.
The road was covered with black ice and an SUV spun around, slid off
the road and struck a snow bank, then rolled onto its side. The driver initially said that she was
not hurt. She then said that she had
a bump on her head and she would go to her doctor. Due to possible medical concerns
associated with head injuries, she was transported by the Jackman Area
Volunteer Ambulance Corps to the Jackman Region Health Center.
The medical professionals at the Health Center evaluated the driver and called for
LifeFlight. The patient was airlifted
to a hospital in Bangor.
4. 01/30/2003 Snowmobile accident Soldiertown Township.
A snowmobiler following the ITS snowmobile trail went off the trail
on a corner and hit some trees. The
snowmobiler suffered serious injuries.
When the emergency call was placed to the Jackman Region Health Center, the staff at the Health Center immediately called for
LifeFlight. Two Plum Creek Timber
Company foresters were in the area so they located a landing point for the
helicopter and relayed the coordinates.
The helicopter easily came to the location and landed, and once
JMRFD firefighters and Jackman Area Volunteer Ambulance Corps personnel
brought the patient off the snowmobile trail, he was loaded on the
helicopter and flown to a hospital in Bangor.
3.
01/24/2003 Snowmobile Accident just off Main Street, Jackman. The operator of the
snowmobile suffered serious injuries when she hit some small trees. She was transported by the Jackman Area
Volunteer Ambulance Corps to the Jackman Region Health Center for emergency
treatment. She was then airlifted
from Jackman by LifeFlight helicopter.
2. 01/19/2003 Structure Fire Pleasant
Street, Moose River A woodstove pipe that passes through a short section
of wall to the chimney got very hot and ignited part of the wall. Less than 1 gallon of water was used to
extinguish the fire. Damage was kept
to a minimum.
1. 01/12/2003 Alarm activation Main
Street (Route 201), Jackman While the resident of the home was away, her Monitor
heater mis-fired and went out. In
mis-firing it produced some smoke that entered the home that set off two
smoke detectors. The neighbors
across the street heard the smoke detectors and reported the incident.
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