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Single-vehicle rollover leaves driver in critical condition
Local departments collaborate in response to accident
YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) - The Somerton Cocopah Fire Department (SCFD) responded to a single-vehicle rollover on County 14th & Levee Road at about 4:30 Saturday morning.
U.S. Border Patrol made the initial discovery. While on usual patrol, agents found a Dodge SUV rolled topside right along the edge of the canal and immediately requested backup.
SCFD were obligated to use the Jaws of Life when rescuing the only occupant. Visibly unconscious, the 24-year-old woman was in critical condition. Authorities transported her to Yuma Regional Medical Center via a Somerton Fire Ambulance upon extraction.
Fire damages abandoned home in Somerton
SOMERTON, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) - Multiple agencies extinguished a fire in an abandoned home early Sunday morning.
The Somerton Cocopah Fire Department (SCFD) said it received reports of a house fire around 3 a.m. at the 200 block of E. Spring Street in Somerton.
When SCFD arrived at the scene, it found an abandoned home with fire coming from the attic and the interiors.
Fire crews did a quick search to ensure no homeless occupants were in the home and immediately started extinguishing the fire.
MCAS Fire Department helped SCFD with the fire while the Yuma Fire Department backfilled the fire station.