By Times Chronicle Staff
Osoyoos Fire Rescue (OFR) responded to a motor vehicle accident on Hwy 3 on Friday afternoon ultimately rescuing a trapped occupant of a truck that had gone over an embankment.
Receiving the call at 2:18 p.m., the OFR said it responded with three trucks and 11 personnel to the emergency call.
On arrival of the first truck, firefighters came upon the scene of a single pickup truck that had gone off the road and over the embankment, roughly 250 feet down from the road. Firefighters executed a rope rescue and extrication of one trapped occupant.
The OFR worked with BC Emergency Health Services and the RCMP. The OFR crew cleared the scene and were back in service by 6 p.m. the department said on social media.
