Local emergency officials decline to give names of victims;

WAVE OF EMERGENCIES HIT LAWRENCE COUNTY WEDNESDAY

A pair of ATV accidents just hours apart sent fire and rescue agencies into action Wednesday, as multiple emergencies erupted throughout Lawrence County.

The two latest four wheeler wrecks mark the third ATV accidents, which resulted in a serious injury, in the last 100 hours (since Saturday evening March 26), and the local area has also seen a significant spike in automobile accidents in the past 2 to 3 weeks, most which resulted in various degrees of injuries, (and several in which the driver and/or other occupants had fled the scene, and they could not be located).

The first ATV accident was reported just after 5:30 P.M. Wednesday, when Lawrence County E-911 received a call about a four wheeler accident at the Millers Brothers Mine, which is located on Route 1760, about a mile off Route 32.

The City of Louisa Fire Department responded to the accident scene where they rescued the seriously injured driver while they also immediately called the Air Evac Lifeteam 116 medical air ambulance out of Inez, Kentucky for a request of a medical air transport to a trauma center in Huntington, West Virginia.

About an a hour after the accident, the injured ATV driver was flown out by the helicopter. Emergency officials would not release the name of the injured individual.

The second ATV accident occurred a few hours later at just after 2 A.M. Thursday morning, when Lawrence County E-911 received a call about an ATV accident on Rockhouse School Road in the Blaine area. The call reported that the driver had crashed into a creek and was pined under the ATV in about a foot deep of water. (See photo above)

BLAINE FOUR WHEELER ACCIDENT SCENE IN CREEK ON ROCKHOUSE ROAD.

The Blaine Volunteer Fire Department and Netcare Ambulance Lawrence County responded to the ATV accident scene on Rockhouse School Road, along with the Lawrence County Search and Rescue agency

Fire and emergency personnel rescued the injured ATV driver, whose identity was not revealed by emergency officials; was said to had “mild to moderate” injuries, was taken within a hour of the accident by Netcare Ambulance to Three Rivers Medical Center in Louisa for further treatment.

The Blaine ATV wreck was not the first accident of the day that the Blaine Volunteer Fire Department had to respond to. It was also not the last emergency call for the City of Louisa Fire Department for the day as well.

CAR ON ITS SIDE ON ROUTE 201 NEAR LAWRENCE/JOHNSON COUNTY LINE

Just less than a hour after the first ATV accident on Route 1760, just shortly after 6 P.M. Wednesday evening, when Lawrence County E-911 received a call about an automobile accident on south KY 201 near the Johnson/Lawrence County line.

The Blaine Volunteer Fire Department responded to the accident scene, where it was discovered that a passenger car had crashed into a rocky ditch on a curve on Route 201, and had flipped onto the driver’s side. The occupants of the vehicle were able to exit the vehicle, and no one was injured seriously in the wreck.

Brush Fires, too!

Also just after ATV accident #1, right around the same time of the Route 201 wreck, just shortly after 6 P.M. Wednesday evening,  Lawrence County E-911 received a call about a large brush fire in the area of Moores Chapel US 23, just a few miles south of Louisa.

The City of Louisa Fire Department responded to the brush fire scene, and were able to extinguish the blaze within 90 minutes of arriving at the area.

There was also an even bigger brush fire a couple hours earlier when Lawrence County E-911 received a call about a major brush fire in the 6000 block of KY 581 in southern Lawrence County, near the county lines with Johnson County and Martin County.

The Lowmansville Fire Department responded to the brush fire scene, where the situation was severe enough that the Lowmansville Fire Department was unable to control the blaze, and they had to request further assistance via the Kentucky Division of Forestry firefighting units.

Both agencies were able to put out the brush fire after several hours of working efforts.