Woodbury – “Three rescues in the four days through Sunday June 6th, and everything went smoothly,” sums up Fire Chief Janet B. Morgan of the Woodbury Volunteer Fire Department. “We train and train, and it all pays off.” In the Sunday afternoon event, firefighters were called from displaying Engine 4 at the Woodbury Lions Club car show directly to a rope rescue down a Pomperaug River slope.
A homeowner gardening along his line slipped and tumbled roughly 50 feet down a 70-foot drop on White Oak Rd., Woodbury. Firefighters rigged a sling and harness rescue to retrieve the man who suffered a broken ankle, bruised ribs, and multiple impacts to his head and body during his fall. The day before, Saturday,a firefighter rescue crew responded to a single car crash with no injury reported. However three persons were hurt Thursday in a two-car crash at Route 6 and 61. Firefighters cut their way through sheetmetal, car structure, and glass to extract two individuals from an overturned Nissan Rogue that had been in a collision with a Honda Accord. In all three victims, including one from the Honda, were taken to the hospital, and the accident is under investigation.
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