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Article: Wyoming: 36 vehicles involved in accident on Interstate 80.( )
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- Firehouse Magazine
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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It was unusually wet and foggy at milepost 332 on Interstate 80 in Wyoming on Aug. 19, 2004. Not one member of the Laramie Fire Department (LFD) was surprised when at 10:37 on that Thursday morning the primary ambulance (MS144) was dispatched to that area, 16 miles to the east, for a multi-vehicle collision.
What the firefighters didn't know was that they were about to become involved in what has been described as the "largest incident ever handled in Wyoming."
Interstate 80 cuts across the bottom half of Albany County and is included in the 2,400-square-mile fire and 4,400-square-mile EMS response area of the LFD. At 10:49, 10 minutes before MS144 ...