On Monday night, firefighters rushed to rescue a family stranded on a highway before a tractor-trailer smashed into their vehicles causing an explosion.
In a bizarre incident later that night, the passenger of a car who drove through the barricade during clean-up waved a gun and ran into a firefighter.
“Amazingly, everybody walked away,” said Myles Swain, an EMT and volunteer firefighter who was on the scene. “There could have been seven fatalities.” The incident started at about 10 p.m. Monday night when Acme-Delco-Riegelwood Fire-Rescue received a call about a car broken down on the side of Highway 74/76.
Chief Steve Camlin, Autumn Witchen, Jesse Witchen, and Myles Swain responded to help the stranded people.