{"id":116965,"date":"2021-03-10T09:25:19","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T14:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=116965"},"modified":"2021-03-10T09:25:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T14:25:19","slug":"utica-police-assist-utica-fire-department-with-car-fire-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=116965","title":{"rendered":"Utica police assist Utica Fire Department with car fire rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-tiled-gallery aligncenter is-style-rectangular\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__gallery\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__row\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:49.68638979354322%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/utica-fire-department-logo.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=439&#038;ssl=1 439w\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"531\" data-id=\"116966\" data-link=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=116966\" data-url=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/utica-fire-department-logo.jpg\" data-width=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/utica-fire-department-logo.jpg?ssl=1\" layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:50.31361020645677%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Utica-Police-Department-patch-blotter.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=180&#038;ssl=1 180w\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"215\" data-id=\"109597\" data-link=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=109597\" data-url=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Utica-Police-Department-patch-blotter.jpg\" data-width=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Utica-Police-Department-patch-blotter.jpg?ssl=1\" layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At about 7:30 p.m. March 9, 2021, Utica police and fire units were dispatched to the intersection of Albany Street and South Park Drive for a one-car crash; the vehicle had driven into a wooden area that was engulfed in flames.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first arriving police units secured the area, and the Utica Fire Department arrived within moments.&nbsp;It was immediately learned that the male operator was trapped within the vehicle, and emergency rescue efforts were undertaken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the initial stages, and due to the serious nature of needing to remove the occupant, the Fire Department began to utilize all resources to extricate the male.&nbsp;Due to this, the danger of the fire was still very present, and a member of the UPD Patrol Division manned the firehose and began to douse the vehicle while the fire personnel worked to free the male.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a few minutes more, fire personnel arrived on scene and heroically were able to free the male and rush him to St. Elizabeth\u2019s Hospital.&nbsp;Once there, the hospital staff continued life-saving measures; the male is in critical but stable condition thanks to the efforts of everyone involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We at the Utica Police Department would like to thank and congratulate our brothers and sisters at UFD and the trauma staff at St. Elizabeth\u2019s for their efforts with this incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, great job to our patrol officer for stepping in and assisting when needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At about 7:30 p.m. March 9, 2021, Utica police and fire units were dispatched to the intersection of Albany Street and South Park Drive for a one-car crash; the vehicle had driven into a wooden area that was engulfed in flames. The first arriving police units secured the area, and the Utica Fire Department arrived [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-uqx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}