12/8/11 - Delhi Twp extrication, Okemos Rd over I-96

At 4:51 PM on Thursday, December 8, 2011, the Delhi Township Fire Department and Lansing-Mason Ambulance Service were dispatched to a pin in accident on Okemos Rd on the I-96 overpass. Dispatch reported 3 cars involved and possible multiple patients, with one car reported smoking. While en route, mutual aid was requested by both fire & EMS for Meridian Township Fire to respond from a station much closer to the scene. On arrival, personnel found 3 cars involved in a head-on collision, 5 patients to be assessed with 1 needing extrication. Delhi Rescue 21 arrived and deployed their tools to remove the driver's door of the SUV for patient removal. All three agencies worked together to remove and prepare the injured for transport. A total of 4 people were transported by EMS to the hospital with non life threatening injuries.