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OVERTURNED TRACTOR TRAILER - Route 1 South Bound

June 27, 2007

Station 15 and Stations 4/24 were dispatched to a MVC with Entrapment involving an overturned tractor trailer Route 1 SB at Kirkwood-St.Georges Road.  A-15 w/ Career Staff Boots, Engine 15-5 with a crew of 5 with Chief Rosseel (15-8) in command responded.  The Communications Center advised the units responding that after receiving additional information the driver self extricated himself and that there was a large fuel spill.  Station 15 units arrived on scene and Chief Rosseel reduced the assignment to Station 15 units.  The driver of the tractor trailer swerved to miss a dog that ran onto Route 1 and lost control and overturned on its side.  The trailer was full of bananas.  The entire load stayed intact.  Route 1 southbound was shut down for several hours due to off loading the bananas to another tractor trailer and uprighting the damaged tractor trailer.  Scene was tunred over to DSP and DelDot.  Photos provided by Crick14 Productions.