Gretna Rescue Squad 1st Lt.
Pernice White jumped into action after seeing her neighbor’s truck on fire
while driving home.
An EMS provider saved her neighbor from his
burning truck after figuring out the collision on her way home from work.
It was reported that 14-year veteran Gretna
Rescue Squad 1st Lt. Pernice White spotted a burning pickup truck jammed
between trees on the side of a sharp turn and arrived to help. The vehicle was
badly stuck and that multiplied the trouble.
Lt. White informed as she got closer, she
heard someone screaming and realized that the truck was of her neighbor’s. She
called the emergency telephone number before embarking on the action.
“I ran over and started calling his name, and
I started pulling on him trying to get him out,” Lt. White said.
White performed her first emergency extraction
and heaved the man to safety before the fire department arrived with their Emergency and
Safety Products to drench the flames.
“She did an excellent job and we’re really
proud of her,” Gretna Volunteer Fire Department Chief Chad Hogan said.
“It’s an act of heroism,” Pittsylvania County
Board of Supervisors member Ben Farmer said. “Having the bravery to put your
own wellbeing to the side to risk for a fellow citizen is the definition of
heroism.”
Lt. White credited the fire department and EMS
providers who assisted her throughout the incident.
“We work together as a team, and we work
together as a family,” she said. “They did what needed to be done.”
Source:
https://www.firerescue1.com/extrication/articles/378098018-EMS-provider-pulls-neighbor-from-burning-truck-on-way-home/
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