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Semi-truck and sedan crash blocks southbound I-5 lanePortland OR

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I-5, Portland, OR

A traffic accident occurred on southbound I-5 near SW 26th Avenue involving a semi-truck and a sedan. The vehicles are blocking the left lane. Access to the crash site is only possible from Capitol Highway ramp in the wrong direction due to a road closure. There are no reports of serious entrapment beyond a stuck door.

Audio|Source: Portland Area Fire and Rescue
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Transcript:
00:00
Traffic accident with a pin ends up on I-5 near SW 26th Avenue.
00:03
All right, if you've got a full assignment coming, let me know if you need that.
00:12
Okay, MTC, thank you.
00:14
Copy that.
00:18
Truck 4, C4, Medics 309, Engine 18 also,
00:22
a report of a pin in traffic accidents, two cars,
00:26
a semi-truck,
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and a sedan, they're blocking the left-end lane, southbound I-5 near SW 26th Avenue, responding off 6, it is 1352.
00:40
We have a five-story, center hallway apartment.
00:44
We had reports of smoke coming from the 5th floor.
00:48
This is going to be, the alpha side is going to be Northrop.
00:51
The smoke is in the Bravo Charlie 5th floor, room 533 as a target.
00:58
And appears there's water coming from the outside, so it's probably a sprinkler activation oil by BTM up there and investigating right now.
01:07
Enter 3, a copy a five-story center hallway apartment, reports of smoke originally from the fifth floor, the target.
01:12
It will be 533.
01:14
Northrop will be the Alpha side.
01:16
Water appears from possible sprinkler activation and investigating at 1353.
01:24
The patient was going to be in a black jacket and blue pants if you see him wondering around.
01:30
Copy, we'll circle back see if you can find them.
01:33
Copy an engine 21, you can clear the false alarm.
01:40
...forming fire or something at a homeless camp on Northeast 2-6 between Burnside and Cooch.
01:47
Respond in Ox 1 is 1353.
01:53
Yeah,
01:54
access to the crash 5 southbound south of Spring Garden is going to need to be from the Capitol Highway on ramp the wrong direction.
02:02
The road is closed and there's a lot of traffic they won't be able to get through.
02:07
Okay, so that's access you said was Capitol Highway from the wrong way.
02:16
Let me come up the, uh,
02:20
go northbound on the southbound lane, and we have the road closed, so.
02:27
Copy that, I'm passing on, thank you.
02:33
O doc is advising access is from Capitol Highway, the wrong direction to come up.
02:41
Northbound on the southbound side they have the road closed ODOT confirms the road is closed.
02:45
This be engine 4, engine 23 truck 4, C4, engine 18 Meg3-09 channels opt 6.
02:56
C4 copy and the dispatch from C4, is there any indication that the vehicles that are pinned or the individual cannot got out as an underride scenario or the just-impost dock door?
03:11
On the reports, it sounds like just a stuck door.
03:17
Copy.
03:19
And C4, C105 said he's responding, you can clear?
03:26
Copy.
03:31
C105, I copy the update.
03:36
Once again, access instructions.
03:39
ODOT says access from Capitol Highway, the wrong way, come up northbound in the southbound lane.
03:47
ODOT does have the road closed.

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