Star Award

Lyons Fire Department

October 25, 2020

Lyons, IL

DATE OF INCIDENT:

10/25/20

PEOPLE INVOLVED IN PROVIDING ASSISTANCE TO INCIDENT:

Fire Chief Gordon J. Nord Jr. - Lyons Fire Department
Lt. Timothy O'Toole - Lyons Fire Department
Firefighter Robert Garapolo - Lyons Fire Department
Firefighter Jeffery Braun - Lyons Fire Department
Firefighter / PM Michael Coughlin - Lyons Fire Department
Firefighter / PM Johnny Gonzalez - Lyons Fire Department
Probationary Firefighter Jasqueline Christin - Lyons Fire Department
Chief Mathew Buckley - Riverside Fire Department
Lt. Dan Tabb - Riverside Fire Department
Firefighter Mike Gardner - Riverside Fire Department
Firefighter Jake Campbell - Riverside Fire Department
Firefighter / PM Kasia Koscielniak - Riverside Fire Department
PM Collin Ehrlich - Riverside Fire Department

DESCRIPTION OF INCIDENT:

Incident # 20-1706
Units responded to a report of a one vehicle severe accident at Lawndale and Ogden Avenue.   Units arrived on the scene to find one vehicle wrapped around an electrical pole with a subject heavily trapped.
Request was made for an additional Squad from Riverside to assist.   Both Lyons and Riverside fire departments worked together with their AMKUS cutters, Amkus spreaders and AMKUS Combi Tools under a
very hazardous conditions (pole cracked totally in half) to remove victim from the vehicle that was totally wrapped around a electrical pole. Companies operated together in a unified fashion to remove roof, doors
and spread metal to remove the patient.   Both departments use of AMKUS equipment once again provided for a very smooth and quick operation.

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