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This gallery of pictures is for education and information. While injuries are shown, there are no deaths to be seen, and we maintain a level beyond which we feel it is not appropriate to show here. Most of the pictures here could be seen on the tv news, or in the newspaper. Explicit pictures will not be shown, since we want this site to inform, and do not want younger viewers to be turned away.


Dec 1999. Alpha 3 & 4 extricated
driver from this van wreck. It is
completely inside a gas station.
That is the front counter to the left.

Same van wreck, viewed from
the outside. Several other people
and vehicles were struck in this
van versus building wreck.

The Great Interstate Watermelon
Wreck
Wouldn't you like to try and
drive through that slippery road?

June 1999. Interstate. Van rollover
ejected 11 people. 6 ambulances
worked the call, 4 fatalities by end.

June 1999.  Same van rollover, 
as Sheriff's deputies assist
FCEMS and rescue squad.

Rural highway. Car pulled out in
front of Law Enforcement vehicle.
Several fatalities.

August 1999. SCDOT Truck,
car, and truck accident. Patient
extricated, severe femur fracture.

August 1999. Second vehicle in
accident with SCDOT. No injuries
in this vehicle, surprisingly.

Every EMT's nightmare. Kids on
a bus in a wreck. Thankfully,
they had just let the last one off.

The top of this car was removed in
the accident. Surprisingly the top
of the driver was not removed.

The entire rear of this car was
sliced off when it hit a bridge going
sideways. 4 people thrown out.

1995 18 wheeler on car. Patient
extrication time prolonged, but
injuries turned out very minor.

The tractor trailer rolled over part
of the way over this car, which is
where the driver is entrapped.

This truck skidded on wet
pavement, and turned over on top
of this bridge, on top of the driver.

The driver is at the bottom of
the picture, below the man standing
on the guardrail.

Police assist EMS in trying to gain
access to a critical patient who is
taking his last breaths.

Backup units arrive as access is
gained to the vehicle. Paramedic
is inside to stabilize patient.

Now the other door is forced to
take the driver out, who is also
in very bad shape.

This car followed the DOT truck
painting highway lines all the way
to the source. It proved fatal.

Front end to driver side door
collision. Both patients critical. No
extrication needed due to damage.

FCEMS in the early 1980's.
Take'em out, Pump'em up,
Fill'em up, Haul'em.

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