UPDATE: Seattle Fire rescue response for car in ravine

10:58 AM: Seattle Fire has a “rescue extrication” response headed to the 2100 block of Arch SW (map) for a report of a car into a ravine. This will affect traffic in the Fairmount Ravine area – access to the incident area is “tight,” as firefighters are pointing out to dispatch. Updates to come.

11:01 AM: Firefighters confirmed to dispatch “We have a car in the ravine.” Now they’re trying to determine the status of occupant(s). … Update: “One patient, appears to be fine.”

11:09 AM: They’re still working to get that person out of the car.

11:20 AM: The person is out and described in “stable condition.”

11:42 AM: SFD is wrapping up its response, so most emergency vehicles should be cleared out of the area soon.

jay freeborne August 3, 2022 (11:34 am)

I can hear the helicopters up here on the hill above Ravine.

WSB August 3, 2022 (11:45 am)

If there was a helicopter, may have been TV – none involved in the response. Aerial would have been the only way to get pics of this due to the inaccessibility of the scene.
- onion August 3, 2022 (12:06 pm)
  
  I walk up and down Fairmount all the time and always thought that was simply a long driveway and not a road. Looking at the linked map in streetview helped me imagine how a car might tumble into the ravine around the Arch Ave address.

pat davis August 3, 2022 (11:35 am)

thanks you west seattle blog for always being so ‘on top of it’ MUCH appreciated. I wondered whya helicopter keeps circling here in N Admiral.

Newest Fan of WSB August 3, 2022 (11:52 am)

Hear hear! Thank you WSB, you rock! I was also watching the news helicopter circling above while hitting refresh here on WSB to find out what’s up. This has quickly become my favorite news site of any kind.

Fairmount August 3, 2022 (12:07 pm)

Glad to hear my neighbor is ok. SFD “Heavy Response” & helicopter have left.

I assume they’ll have to extract from SW Hill at the bottom of the ravine. As a resident of Fairmount, I can tell you the ravine “drop off” is significant.

A speeding car coming down Fairmount a couple of years lost control across the street & went airborne over the curb. They were lucky as hell to have hit a tree which saved them from going over the steep slope.

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