RESCUE VICTIMS. PARAMEDIC JOHN ATKINSON WAS ON HIS WAY TO THE SCENE OF THE BRIDGE COLLAPSE WHEN HE HEARD SOME OF HIS FELLOW FIRST RESPONDERS WERE HAVING PROBLSEM GETTING THEIR RESCUE VEHICLES OUT OF THE RAVINE. SO ATKINSON OFFEDER TO USE HIS OWN PICKUP TRUCK, WHICH HE JUST BOUGHT SERALEV MONTHS AGO THAT ALMOST FTEL LIKE AN UBER DRIVER WAITING, YOU KNOW COMING DOWN TO PICK SOMEBODY UP. IT’S DOUFUL BTTHAT ANY UBER DRIVERS HAVE VENTURED DOWN THE STEEP TERRAIN OF FRICK PARK UNDER A COLLAPSED BRIDGE. IT’S QUITE A SIGHT TO SEE BUT PARAM JOHN ATKINSON DID IT WITH HIS PICKUP TRUCK. HE PULLED OUT THIS WOMANHO W WAS LOADED ONTO THE BED OF HIS PICKUP WHEN OTHER RESCUE VEHICLES COULD NOT GET OUT. THEY WEER DOWN THERE. THEY HAD, YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY TAKING CARE OF IT WAS JUST, YOU KNOW, MEANS OF YOU KNOW, THE QUESTION WASOW H WE’RE GONNA GET THESE PEOPLE OUT OF HERE EVEN THOUGH THE VICTIMS VALIT SIGNS WERE STABLE ATKINSON SAYS SHE NEEDED TO GET OUT QUICKLY AND EVEN SOMEBODY WHO’S NOT CRITICALLY ENTERED WILL DEFINITELY, YOU KNOW EXPOSEUR TO THE ELEMENTSS I A BIG PROBLEM. HE ALSO PULLED OUT ANOTHER VICTIM WHO DIDOT N NEEDO T BE TREATED BUT WAS CONCERNED ABOUT BEING LATE TO WORK. HE WAS SURPRISINGLY UNINJURED AND HE JUST NEEDED TO GET OUT OF THERE AND WANTED TO GO TO WORK. SO HE HOPPED UP IN THE FRONT WITH ME AND IT’S LIKE A CAUTIOUS RIDE OUT ATKINSO INS TRAINED AS A TACTICAL PARAMEDIC, BUT HIS TRNIAING DID NOT PREPARE HIM FOR THIS. WE DON’T REALLY TRAIN AN OFF-ROAD DRIVING, BUT YOU KNOW, IT’S JUST UNDERSTOOD THAT YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES YOU JUST SORT OF HAVE TO TO DO SO UMENORTHODOX THINGS OR THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX TO YOU KNOW TO MEET THE NEEDS OF OF THE INCIDENT AND THAT’S WHAT TODAY LIKE MANY OF US PARAMICED JOHN ATKINSON SAYS HE’S USED THIS BRIDGE ON FORBES AVEENU HUNDREDS OF TIMES AND NEVER GAVE IT A SECOND THOUGHT. UNTIL TODAY REPORTING F