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Batesville Fire Department Uses Amkus ION Spreader And ION Cutter To Rescue Person Trapped Under Vehicle Rollover

Batesville Fire Department was dispatched to a single-vehicle rollover MVC. Unknown Injuries and Unknown entrapment during the 3 minute response time they received a radio transmission that one subject was trapped in the rear of the vehicle. After stabilizing vehicle Batesville Fire utilized Amkus’ brand new ION Spreader and ION Cutter. From time of arrival until the subject was being transported to the hospital was 10 minutes. This was the first extraction with Amkus’ new ION tools and they worked flawlessly. People involved in providing the assistance to incident are Chief Brent Gleghorn, Captain Brandon Magness, Lt. Donald Richardson, Driver Mark Owens, and Relief Driver Howard West.

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