First responders are learning to combat a new type of safety risk: electric vehicles.
“They’re silent,” Eureka Fire-Rescue Chief Brad James said. “You pull up and you assume it’s off. If it’s still in drive and the patient or first responder accidentally hits the pedal, that thing can take off.”
Harrison resident Sam Huey partnered with the Allegheny-Kiski Health Foundation this past week to provide two emergency plugs, or eplugs, to safeguard responders at the scene of an electric vehicle collision or fire…