Purchase- Technical Rescue 2-10-07 (Updated)

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Date:2-10-07

Time: 0100hrs

Location: 735 Anderson Hill Road Purchase College, Natural Sciences Building, by "The Well"

Frequency: 46.26

Units Operating:2411, 2412 (Alumni Village then Natural Sciences), R30, E238 (Alumni Village then Natural Sciences), Harrison EMS and New York State University Police.Description Of Incident: Student fell 10 feet into well. Purchase FD extricated victim from well.

Writer: NOR1219, x635

Time of call: 00:56:18

On Scene: 01:02

Under Control: 02:10

Cleared: 02:22

2nd call simultaneously to Alumni Village for a commercial alarm. Upon arrival to the Natural Sciences Building, we found the patient, conscious and alert, roughly 15 feet in “the well”, after a 15-20 foot fall. “The well” is a 10 foot cylindrical structure, attached to the outside of the Natural Sciences Building, that descends another 5 feet below ground. We investigated a vent at the bottom of the well. When arriving in the boiler room connected to the structure, we discovered the vent was connected to an HVAC exhaust unit; the patient was inaccessible this way. We had one firefighter repel into “the well” who collared and harnessed the patient. We set up a 2:1 rope system to extricate the patient. The patient was lifted out of the well at 02:10 and transported by HEMS to Westchester Medical Center.

Edited February 10, 2007 by x635