2011 Flight for Life
Scene Call of the Year Award

The award was earned by the Plymouth Fire Department for a July 7, 2011 incident
in which the Plymouth Fire Department was dispatched to a head-on vehicle crash
involving a semi-trailer truck and a car. The car was very badly damaged and the
driver was critically injured. The car also was leaking a large amount of fluid,
posing a severe safety risk. Firefighters worked quickly to control and contain
the fluid, then began the very extensive extrication process. Plymouth Ambulance Service
also helped stabilize the
injured driver during the extrication process, and the Sheboygan County
Sheriff's Department and Plymouth Police Department secured the area. After
an extremely difficult extrication, the driver was freed from the
vehicle and loaded into a Flight For Life helicopter for rapid transportation to
a trauma center.
The award was presented during Plymouth's Public Safety Night on July 26, 2012.
View pictures from the event.
About Flight for Life's Scene Call of the Year Award
Flight for Life's Scene Call of the Year awards are given annually to
department's who have summoned Flight for Life to the scene of a extrordinarilly
difficult emergency. The calls are examined for scene safety, triage
decisions, complex planning and accident scene management, integration of the
helicopter into the call, and use of skills that went beyond the call of duty to
treat the patient. The calls are evaluated by a panel of judges based on the
guidelines developed by the American College of Surgeons for using air medical
transport.