Re: [sme2] re Manchester VT - it was a car crash yesterday

still trying to figure out how emergency services work in winhall vermont

for fire - both winhall fire and stratton mtn fire are first due in
parts of winhall

for police - winhall police cover the entire town

for ambulance - winhall rescue seems to cover all of winhall - but
they are backed up by northshire ambulance in manchester VT - and by
Rescue Inc in Townshend VT - and possibly by Stratton Mtn Rescue

it is very possible that Winhall Rescue does not have any ambulances -
Winhall Rescue might just be EMT / cops from Winhall PD

note - the 2/2025 vt ems list shows Winhall Rescue as an ALS first
responder service - but winhall police / rescue websites do not
mention ALS - firenews.org lists 2 ambulances under Winhall Rescue but
there are no photos

for the winhall fatal crash - both winhall (fire) and winhall rescue
were paged by SWNH on 154.145R

to further complicate things - the stratton mtn ski resort straddles
the winhall / stratton town border - the ski resort pays winhall for
police coverage - the stratton mtn fire company apparently has first
due areas in both winhall and stratton - stratton mtn rescue operates
an als ambulance nearly fulltime from the ski resort clinic but they
are not listed on any of the psap maps - and we suspect that the
Stratton Mtn Rescue actually responds as the transport unit for most
of the town of Winhall - but not the west side of Winhall were the
accident happened

On Sat, Sep 27, 2025 at 5:52 PM Peter Sz via groups.io
<zerg90=gmail.com@groups.io> wrote:
>
> only took the winhall fd 4 minutes to get 2 engines on the road - but
> it took them 10 minutes to travel to the scene
>
> VT State Police apparently arrived first and said that there were 4
> status 1 patients with 1 being trapped
>
> someone requested a helo early on - must have been on the police side
>
> stratton mtn rescue volunteered to respond 10 minutes into the call -
> not sure why they didnt go on the first dispatch
>
> run card called for 1 manchester amb and 1 manchester engine on the
> first dispatch - they never came up on 154.145 R in the first 15
> minutes of the call
>
> its possible that winhall rescue failed to respond - maybe just 1 of
> their members signed on - and that was after the 2nd page - which was
> 5 minutes after the first page
>
> tone sets are just transmitted once - tones are approx 2 sec + 3 second
>
> 124 eng 1 told 124 eng 4 that the crash was in deadmans curve while
> they were responding - pretty sure thats a whole nuther story
>
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM Peteri Szerlagi <zerg90@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > https://www.manchesterjournal.com/local-news/winhall-crash-leaves-one-dead-six-injured/article_62aa351b-7ed5-44cb-9de4-42b196f74d88.html
> >
> > 1 person died
> >
> > iirc winhall pd has 1 cop / medic working 24/7 - but I dont think they
> > havae an abulance
> >
> > stratton mtn rescue has an als ambulance weekdays iirc - at the ski resort
> >
> > the 24/7 ambulance for the area might be londonderry or rescue inc or manchester
> >
> > not sure who has jaws - maybe winhall fd or londonderry rescue or manchester
> >
> > this is near usfs terriroty so maybe they had 1 or 2 people there
> > doing traffic control or lz ops
>
>
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