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Redondo/Hill Crash w/ 5 Vehicles, 11 Patients, 1 Suspected Hit/Run Driver

Incident likely stressed LB's Mayor/Council thinned firefighting resources


(Nov. 17, 2014) -- A five-vehicle midafternoon collision at Redondo Ave./Hill St. involved 11 patients: seven of whom were transported to hospitals in various conditions (PD says none believed to be life-threatening) with four individuals treated on scene. LBPD says it found and arrested a suspected hit and run driver.

LBREPORT.com notes that the incident likely stressed LB's Mayor/Council thinned firefighting resources.

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LBPD Public Information Officer Claudia Lopez tells LBREPORT.com that at about 3:15 p.m., officers responded to Redondo/Hill, determined that an injury hit/run had occurred involving five vehicles...and officers located and arrested a suspected hit and run driver nearby in Signal Hill...and LBPD's investigation is ongoing.

Three LB fire engines responded to the accident scene: Engines 2, 10 and 14 (plus Truck 11.) The three Engines were dispatched under LB's Mayor-recommended Council-approved "Rapid Medic Response" test system (which saves money by having all Fire Engines now carry one of two paramedics no longer provided on Rescue units.)

At the same time, three eastside fire stations -- 8, 17 and 18 -- currently lack fire engines...the only apparatus capable of spraying water than can put out fires. In January 2014, a residence across the street from station 17 burned until an engine arrived from further away.) There's no immediate word of delays in responses to fires during the acute period of the Nov. 17 Redondo/Hill incident.

The Rapid Medic Deployment paramedic staffing test and the absence of staffed fire engines at three LB fire stations are the result of budget votes under Mayors Foster and Garcia by Council majorities (without dissent under Garcia.)



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