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Flomaton Man Critically Injured In Century Wreck
September 29, 2012
One person was critically injured in a single vehicle accident in Century overnight.
The Florida Highway Patrol said 27-year old Domingo Emisdio Flores-Ventura of Flomaton was southbound on Old Flomaton Road when he lost control of his Nissan Titan pickup truck and slammed into a tree at Cedar Street.
The wreck was discovered just after 6 a.m., but the accident apparently happened sometime during the early morning hours.
Flores-Ventura was airlifted by LifeFlight to Baptist Hospital in Pensacola.
The Century, McDavid and Molino Stations of Escambia Fire Rescue, the Flomaton Fire Department and the Jay Fire Department were dispatched to the crash, along with Escambia County EMS and the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office.
Pictured: A Flomaton man was critically injured in this single vehicle accident in Century Saturday morning. Pictured bottom: The driver was airlifted from a nearby business to Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola. NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.
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10 Responses to “Flomaton Man Critically Injured In Century Wreck”
If you have never been a first responder think before you type! I’m sure alot of us would be glad to let you have our jobs for a day!
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Domingo is doing pretty good i am a friend of the family and have been for about 9 years…. When i was laying in bed last night i just happen to be surfing fb and saw this post not to mention that my boyfriend had called me earlier that evening and said he had been in an accident. However I did not think it was this bad until I saw the pictures of the truck I freaked out then… I have talked with Domingo himself and he only has a broken wrist and broken knee GOD was with him for sure along with all the prayers…… So from our family to yours thanks so much for all the effort and prayers that were with him!!!! He will be under going surgery for the broken bones then he will be coming home
Well I gotta comment on Debbie. I’m a local firefighter I have been in for 7 years and I have seen a lot of stuff happen and yea things like this u always need a lot of help there’s been a lot of calls I’ve run and we have had to call more fire departments then this that’s what there here for is to help you and for u to help them
Well I hope the driver is recovering. I can’t believe some of the comments about this article. It’s a life we’re talking about. Not too concerned about a cedar tree or how many vehicles show up to the scene. We all waste a lot more money than what it cost for the vehicles to show up and last I understood, volunteers don’t earn a salary!!
Thank you WIlliam for explaining that as I had tried to comment off my cell phone and it wasn’t letting me earlier. YES< YES< YES thank you SO MUCH firefighters from all over that attempted to come and did come, never can have enough help to save a LIFE ! I am praying for this man and his family and I hope he will be alright.
I’ll respond to that one…the story says “dispatched”. Molino and Jay were canceled from the accident before they arrived on scene. (Jay was just a short distance from the scene when canceled and did pull up.) Molino’s crews “stood by”, ready to take any other calls in the area for those firemen that were working.
Look at the vehicle. This was not some fender bender. It was dispatched as “major extrication”. Turns out the knowledgeable firemen cutting on the truck were able to get the man out in a few minutes. Sometimes an extrication like that can approach an hour to complete. Moving and cutting thousands of pounds of metal out from around a living person (look at the no space remaining for a foot or leg in the top photo) takes manpower.
It takes firemen to direct traffic. It takes more firemen for medical care for the person trapped. It take more firemen to search the nearby woods….the truck had been there for hours…did someone get thrown out or crawl away? It takes more firemen to “watch” the scene to ensure no one else gets hurt, for example watch for an engine fire to start while people are in the truck. It takes more firemen to land LifeFlight at a different location.
It did not cost you “lots” of money as a taxpayer, Debbie. It cost you a little money for fuel, as compared to the trucks sitting in a station. The firemen that responded were all volunteers who cared enough to answer a call at 6:30 on a Saturday morning.
Please don’t rush to judgement without understanding what a situation actually takes. If you or your family had been in the truck, already trapped there for hours, I think you would see this life and death situation a bit differently.
William
Publisher, NorthEscambia.com
I hope this person makes a complete recovery, I really do. That being said, did five fire departments really need to respond ? I can see Century or Flomaton, whos ever district it was in but not ALL the others. If one didn’t have a JAWS and needed it from another they could have sent the truck that had the Jaws on it. Maybe it is just me but this seems like a lot of money wasted. Just saying !
Guess this will have to be renamed now due to the cedar tree being destroyed:/
Hope he is ok. Couldn’t have been a more perfect hit on that tree if he’d aimed for it. That road has always been dangerous. Back in the early 60’s my cousin and a good friend almost lost their lives on that road – driving too fast and teenage drinking – in separate accidents. My prayers are for him and his family.