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Shorelinefire.com
Last evening at approximately 10:10 PM, a report of a single-car accident was heard over PSERN radio near the 300 block of N 205th St in Shoreline. Reported over the radio, bystanders were trying to extricate the trapped driver of the car, which landed on its side, and was "fully involved" (on fire).
The driver was so badly burned that they were initially reported as an "obvious DOA" by fire crews, but once they extricated them, they found they were breathing, so they rushed them to Harborview, later reporting that they had suffered "extensive 3rd degree burns". Harborview is the only Level 1 (regional) Trauma Center serving Washington, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho.
Shoreline Fire PIO, Michelle Pidduck, confirmed that extensive 3rd degree burn victims have a very diminished rate of survival.
