Update:with correction on rank/departments
Firefighter/EMT Mike Buchanan, 51, was air lifted to MCV (VCU Medical Center) after a single vehicle wreck in Charles City County today. Buchanan is in critical condition with serious life-threatening injuries. The apparatus he was driving was a tanker and he was the lone occupant of the vehicle at the time of the accident. The accident occured this morning around 5am in the 7100 block of  Old Union Road just off of route 106. Buchanan was responding to a structure fire with other apparatus in the 400 block of Old Union Road.
Mike is a Firefighter/EMT with the Charles City Volunteer Fire/Rescue Department and also volunteers with the Providence Forge Volunteer Rescue Squad.
The tanker is a 1991 model GMC with 3000 gallons of water.
If anyone can confirm what apparatus he was driving I would appreciate it.
Original story: One Charles City County Firefighter is in the ICU at MCV in Richmond following an apparatus rollover.
We will update with further.
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Mike Buchanan isn’t a Captain. He is a Firefighter/EMT. He is with Charles City Volunteer Fire/Rescue and with Providence Forge Volunteer Rescue Squad. He runs with 2 agency’s. He is a very dedicated volunteer.
Thank you for the update and clarification Lisa!
1991 GMC Truck it was a tanker that carries 3000 gallons of water.
Mike was a former Captain of Providence Forge Vol. Rescue Squad. Which for those who don’t know how rescues squads works, would make him as a Fire chief in a fire dept.
Mike is PFVRS corner stone, he would always be the one responding for every ALS calls for many years, I’ve worked many sleepless nights with im, when the patients ever went down, he was right there to bring them back. Many lifes have been saved by him.
Chris, PFVRS
Our prayers from Camelot Volunteer Fire and Rescue in San Antonio, Texas to Mike Buchanan, family, friends, PFVRS, and CCVFR. We know it isn’t easy doing what we do as Volunteers for our Communities, but we do it because we love it. Get well soon Brother!
God bless you MIke and your family may he gide you back to health
TO THE DEPARTMENT AND FAMILY OF THE DRIVER OF THE TANKER ALL OF OUR PRAYERS ARE WITH HIM AND HIS FAMILY AND THE DEPARTMENT. SORRY FOR THE LOST OF YOUR TRUCK AND MEMBER THAT IS SERIOUSLY INJURED IT MAKES LIFE VERY BAD WE WHEN ARE BROTHER AND SISTERS ARE INJURED IN ANY WAY ME AS THE FIRE CHIEF OF MY DEPARTMENT I AM SENDING ALL MY PRAYERS TO ALL OF YOU GUYS NO WE ARE NOT NEIGHBORING COMPANYS BUT WE ALL ARE BROTHER AND SISTERS SO FROM THE BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAIN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY WE ARE SENDING ALL OF OUR PRAYERS TO YOU GUYS AND GIRLS.AS THE DAYS GO BY WE HOPE A GOOD RECOVERY STARTS SO AS I CLOSE MAY GOD WATCH OVER EACH AND EVERYONE ON AND OFF DUTY SO GIVE MY COMPANYS PRAYERS TO ALL OF THE FAMILY AND MEMBERS OF YOUR DEPARTMENT. MAY GOD BE WITH YOU.FROM CHIEF EARL COGLE
Stay strong mike our prayers from the jarratt volunteer fire department in virginia are with you.