New details on ladder truck fail during recertification in Clymer, PA
The safety officer of the Clymer Volunteer Fire Company 1 in Indiana County, Pennsylvania is providing new details about Monday’s accident involving the department’s 1977 American Lafrance ladder truck. Mike Keith tells Sean Yoder at the Indiana Gazette that a Lancaster area man was conducting the yearly recertification required by the insurance carrier for the department when the incident occurred.
According to Keith, an outrigger on the driver’s side of the truck failed and the ladder collapsed on top of the man doing the inspection.
“At this point, the only person who knew what was going on was the victim,” Keith said by phone this morning. “No one else saw it.”
Indiana County 911 put a call out to Clymer firefighters to respond to their station along Sherman Street at 2:51 p.m. The Cherryhill Township fire department, Citizens’ Ambulance and a medical helicopter were also dispatched. The victim’s condition was not known at press time today.
This is the correct information. In the paper it was said this was our new 1997 Peirce but it was our old 1977 American LaFrance.
Posted by Clymer Volunteer Fire Company #1 on Tuesday, November 3, 2015
