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Rollover Saltwater Truck Hwy 172 7-9-08
Rollover Saltwater Truck Hwy 172 7-9-08
Rollover Saltwater Truck Hwy 172 7-9-08
Rollover Saltwater Truck Hwy 172 7-9-08
Motorcycle Crash Blunt-Mill Rd 7-6-08
Motorcycle Crash Blunt-Mill Rd 7-6-08
Head On Hwy 84 Logansport 7-4-08
Truck hit by runaway trailer on 7/21/09
Truck hit by runaway trailer on 7/21/09 on Hwy. 5
Hwy 5 - 18-wheeler hit by runaway trailer on 7/21/09
School bus wreck on Hwy 3015 on 6/15/09
March 10, 2010 - Hwy. 84 near Hwy. 191
March 10, 2010
Hwy. 84 near 191
Hwy 175 - May 1, 2010
Plane crash
Wild Ride
Inferno
Expert timing
May 7, 2011 - Hwy 84 - one vehicle accident
May 7, 2011 - Hwy 84 - LifeAir arrival
May 7, 2011 - Hwy 84
April 9, 2011 - pick-up veers over center line
April 9, 2011 - fatality
April 9, 2011 - fatality
April 26, 2011 - fatality
April 26, 2011 on I-49
April 26, 2011 - fatality
April 26, 2011 - Interstate 49
Rollover May 7, 2011
May 19, 2011 on Woodlake Road near Jolly Roger Marina.
May 19, 2011
May 27, 2011 18-wheeler rollover
5-27-11 - Rollover
Rollover in Logansport
18-wheeler rollover 7-28-11
Frac sand truck hit by train in Red River Parish
Train wreck 7-28-11
DeSoto EMS and DeSoto fire departments respond
View from the western side of the tracks
Train Derailment July 27, 2011
Did not make the curve
Firemen at the train wreck
Driver ejected 10-19-11
10-19-11 Hwy 84 in Stanley
Scene in Stanley on Oct. 19, 2011
Motor
18-wheeler wreckage
Photographer: Tabitha Tucker
Medic Unit: Medic-1
Fire District: DFD2
Photographer: Tabitha Tucker
Medic Unit: Medic-1
Fire District: DFD2
Photographer: Tabitha Tucker
Medic Unit: Medic-1
Fire District: DFD2
Photographer: Tabitha Tucker
Medic Unit: Medic-1
Fire District: DFD2
Photographer: J. Carter
Medic Unit: Medic-2
Fire District: None
Photographer: J. Carter
Medic Unit: Medic-2
Fire District: None
Reserve Medic 1 other drivers fault. No serious injuries.
Passing 18-wheeler's unattached trailer hit another truck in a curve - driver airlifted.
Driver and 2 students injured when school bus missed the curve and went airborne.
Log truck hits truck then rolls over onto side and slams head-on into an oncoming car resulting in
fatality of female in car.
Log truck vs. car
fatality
Plane crashes into barn less than a mile into Texas
on September 19, 2010. DeSoto EMS medic unit
transported the patient with minor injuries to LSU.
Photo by EMT Todd Waldron
This 18-wheeler missed a hairpin curve on the Rambin Road and took out a whole row of large trees - summer of 2010.
2 fatalities in this burning truck - head-on MVA with salt water truck on Hwy 84 near Mansfield - Sept. 2010
The driver of this Ford tractor attempted to move this old pulpwood truck to a scrap yard. After going down
an incline the truck not only caught up with but over took the tractor using its rear tires as a ramp. The driver was crushed under the truck and killed.
Sept. 2010
Vehicle flipped 4 or 5 times. Patient airlifted to LSU.
LifeAir arrives on scene of one vehicle accident on Hwy. 84. Vehicle flipped 4 or 5 times. DeSoto Fire
District 8 extricates patient.
One vehicle wreck - car flipped several times before coming to a stop against a telephone pole. LifeAir
flew patient to LSU.
Fatality - driver in red pick-up veers over center line side-swiping on-coming 18-wheeler
Driver's side - fatality on Hwy 84. Pick-up and 18-wheeler wreck.
You can't tell there is anything wrong with this truck.
The driver's side tell the sad story - fatality.
Car hit from behind on I-49 - this car's driver - fatality.
This car hit from behind - results in fatality.
This car's driver was a fatality when hit from behind on Interstate 49.
This car's driver was killed when his vehicle was rear-ended on Interstate 49.
Patient flown out by LifeAir.
Patient flown out by LifeAir to LSU Trauma Center.
DeSoto EMS mutual aid in Sabine Parish.
Motorcycle wreck in Sabine Parish.
Patient airlifted by LifeAir to LSU Trauma Center.
Rollover on Hwy 172 west of Keatchie.
Another shot of the rollover on Hwy. 172.
Driver not hurt in rollover 7-28-11
Driver emerged with only scratches - Logansport -
Hwy. 82 @ old Mansfield Rd.
Mutual aid call to RR tracks where train was derailed after hitting frac sand truck - July 27, 2011
4 engines derailed and on fire - engineer flown to LSU Trauma Center by LifeAir - 2 others on train taken by Red River Ambulance to LSU
Mutual aid for train wreck to Red River Parish - Hwy. 84 @ Hwy. 1 crossing
3 frac sand trucks enroute east over tracks, first one hit by train causing derailment - driver taken to LSU
Trauma Center - see purple trailer at right - cab on opposite side of tracks
Firemen stand on top of a derailed locomotive - one
of four. Many hours in the over 100 degree heat were spent putting out a fire in the engines.
This curve immediately south of the crossing -apparently was the cause of the derailment as
8 to 10 cars and 4 engines - all on top of each other as a result of a collision with an 18-wheeler full of frac sand.
Firemen survey the massive destruction that took place in a matter of seconds.
Pick-up enters Hwy 84, hits eastbound 18-wheeler
then westbound 18 wheeler hits pick-up. Motor
missing after collision.
Two 18-wheelers and pick-up.
Driver of pick-up ejected after collision. He was
leaving church's driveway.
Small pick-up vs. two 18-wheelers. Driver ejected.
He was walking around scene - amazing!
Yes, that is the pick-up's engine on the ground.
Unbelieveable that no one was killed in this wreck.
Oct. 19, 2011 - small pick-up exits church driveway,
hits 18-wheeler and ejects driver of p-up. Another
18-wheeler then hits the wreckage as he travels from the opposite direction.
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Rollover Saltwater Truck Hwy 172 7-9-08
Photographer: Tabitha Tucker
Medic Unit: Medic-1
Fire District: DFD2
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