Miracle in fiery crash.On December 16, 2004, James Lonnie Hensley of Skygusty, West Virginia West Virginia, E central state of the United States. It is bordered by Pennsylvania and Maryland (N), Virginia (E and S), and Kentucky and, across the Ohio R., Ohio (W). Facts and Figures Area, 24,181 sq mi (62,629 sq km). Pop. , and his wife, Regina, were driving from Norfolk to Welch. Hearing a loud noise, Hensley checked his rearview mirror and observed the aftermath of a head-on collision A head-on collision is one where the front ends of two ships, trains, planes or vehicles hit each other, as opposed to a side-collision or rear-end collision. Rail transport With rail, a head-on collision often implies a collision on a single line railway. between two trucks. While Mrs. Hensley called emergency rescue operations, Hensley ran to the scene of the crash. He found that an Appalachian Power utility truck was burning. "Me and my wife were the first ones there," Hensley told the Bluefield Daily Telegraph The Bluefield Daily Telegraph is seven-day morning daily newspaper based in Bluefield, West Virginia, and also covering surrounding communities in McDowell, Mercer and Monroe counties, West Virginia; and Bland, Buchanan, Giles and Tazewell counties, Virginia (including the . "Fire was coming out from under the hood under the hood - [hot-rodder talk] 1. The underlying implementation of a product (hardware, software, or idea). Implies that the implementation is not intuitively obvious from the appearance, but the speaker is about to enable the listener to grok it. , and it kept getting worse and worse." Hensley and several others who happened on the scene tried in vain to open the truck's doors and free the trapped driver. Meanwhile, the fire kept growing. "I got a steel bar to try to pry the doors open, but they wouldn't budge," Hensley later recalled. "The fire kept getting bigger and bigger. The adrenaline adrenaline (ədrĕn`əlĭn, –lēn): see epinephrine. just started pumping, and I grabbed that door on the passenger's side, and just yanked it with all my power and it opened. When the door popped open, his feet came loose. We both called it a miracle from God." Both the driver and Hensley--who suffered from smoke inhalation--were brought to nearby Welch Community Hospital for treatment. |
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