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ON THE ROAD, OFF THE ROAD FATALITY
• Firefighters called about 12:35 a.m. today to a single-vehicle wreck in Onalaska found a Jeep that appeared to have left the road, struck a tree and rolled, according to Lewis County Fire District 1. The driver, the only occupant, died at the scene, Fire Chief Andrew Martin said. It was along Centralia-Alpha Road near Beck Road, although toward Oppelt, Martin said. “All we did was respond and turn the scene over to the sheriff’s office,” he said. It’s an area where the fire department sees fatality crashes about once a year, he said.
ON THE ROAD, OFF THE ROAD AIRLIFT
• At about 10:40 p.m. yesterday, firefighters were called to another single-vehicle wreck near the 200 block of Brim Road south of Ethel. Lewis County Fire District 8 Chief Duran McDaniel said the car with just one occupant hit a pole and a tree. The tree fell onto to the vehicle and the challenge was, it took responders about a half an hour to get him cut out of the car, McDaniel said. The patient had back pain and was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, according to McDaniel.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter