Ice and a stalled semi shut Teton Pass for hours; WY-22 closed Wilson to Idaho line before chain-law reopening

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• Stalled semi, then ice, close Teton Pass through the morning commute. A tractor-trailer heading up WY-22 westbound during the no-trailer restriction was reported at 05:52 and stalled near the summit by 06:00, blocking westbound lanes; a deputy (2246) ran the scene while a heavy wrecker was called for the ~50,000-lb rig (40-minute ETA at 07:00). The road briefly reopened around 08:19, but by 09:17–09:33 fresh snow had vehicles sliding and stuck on both sides, with traffic at a standstill back to Victor, Idaho, and eastbound backed up to Mike Harris. A WYDOT alert (relayed on air at 09:48) closed WY-22 both directions from Wilson to the state line for winter conditions and crashes; after plows sanded, the pass went from closed to chains-required at 10:34. TCSO, WHP, WYDOT plows and START buses (two coaches held at turnouts on the pass) were all involved.
• Teen unresponsive outside urgent care on South US-89. At 09:05 Medic 10 was paged for a 15-year-old female who passed out and was reportedly unresponsive outside the urgent care, possibly after a bike accident; she made it into the clinic and Medic 10 transported to St. John's at 09:21.
• Back-to-back fire calls on East Hall Avenue. At 15:47 Engine 11 responded to a home where a bathroom ceiling fan caught fire; occupants had extinguished it, crews confirmed no extension, checked air quality and cleared by 16:25. At 16:31 the same engine was sent next door for a residential CO alarm — CO was detected, occupants were evacuated, and the unit was ventilated to zero readings (dispatch noted CO had been detected at a matching unit in May 2025). Cleared 17:08 with advice to have the appliance serviced.
• Reported fight in a lodging room overnight. At 22:42 units were sent to a second-floor room after a neighboring guest reported screaming and yelling, including a female heard yelling "get off me." Multiple units responded, contacted the occupants (records checks came back clear), and cleared with a report and a criminal-history request by 23:34.
• Crash assist near the Idaho line on US-26. At 08:45 WYDOT dispatch relayed a single-vehicle crash with airbag deployment on the Idaho side of US-26; the driver hit his head (ringing ears), EMS and fire were en route, and with Idaho State Police about two hours out, local units checked a pullout near the state line to assist. No road blockage reported.
• Arrest downtown; hit-and-run in Wilson. A trespass call at a North Glenwood business at 11:00 ended with one male transported to jail at 11:11. At 11:49 a deputy took a hit-and-run collision report at the Aspen Market on West Village Drive.

Also on the air

A routine but busy shoulder-season day around the pass drama: roughly 34 plate checks and 29 records checks, five traffic stops (mix of citations and verbal warnings), and a steady run of medical calls — a dizzy male at the airport FBO (11:14), an 82-year-old fall with a head wound at Four Pines Physical Therapy on South US-89 (12:04, transported), and a cyclist having a seizure on the US-89 bike path at Cowboy Way (12:49, found alert). Two welfare checks, including an adult woman left alone outside her unit in the cold (13:20) and an elder-abuse referral (17:37). A commercial alarm on South Glenwood (07:27) — the third there since Oct. 21 — turned up an open rear door but nothing further. A van parked ~20 days on Spruce Drive drew a parking complaint; a vehicle left out of park rolled into a minor collision at the high school (10:47); a stolen e-bike reported from Blair Place at 20:32 was found and returned to its owner by 22:09. START buses worked around ongoing downtown construction detours, ran a transfer bus to Stilson for Teton Village passengers during the closure, and school-bus dispatch (apparently TG 1812) briefly polled its fleet for a student who hadn't boarded, plus reported a red-light runner caught on bus video.

By the numbers

• Transmissions: 2,004 across 640 exchanges (292 short status-only exchanges omitted from the log).
• Busiest talkgroup: TG 1801 Teton County law dispatch, 986 transmissions; START transit (TG 1820) second at 308.
• Busiest hour: 09:00–10:00 with 233 transmissions — the height of the pass closure.
• Categories: status 263, unclassified 213, medical 39, plate-check 34, records-check 29, transit 18, traffic-complaint 15, fire 10, traffic-stop 5, animal 4, crash 2, noise-parking 2, welfare 2, plus single alarm, hazard, suspicious and 911-open-line exchanges.

Caveats

• Out-of-county traffic mixed in: TG 13751 is Fremont County EMS paging (Lander/Riverton/Dubois — including a grass fire at MP 77 on WY-789 and a Dubois gas leak), TG 109 is statewide WHP (mostly I-80 complaints from Rock Springs/Evanston), and much of TG 6386/6403 WYDOT traffic is Sweetwater/Sublette County. None of it is Teton County activity.
• Machine-transcription noise: unit numbers, road names and vehicle descriptions are frequently garbled (one tracked F-250 was called both gray and green); the pass-closure timeline partly comes secondhand from bus drivers reading WYDOT alerts on air. Treat exact wording and minor details as approximate.
• Unidentified talkgroups: TG 1812 (likely school-district buses), TG 6586/6599 (likely WYDOT maintenance) and TG 5012 are not confirmed, and 213 exchanges could not be classified.