It's been nearly two years since a life-altering accident for a rookie D.C. firefighter. Dane Smothers Jr. was pinned between two firetrucks as he responded to a house fire in Northeast in August 2017. Now, he's suing the DC Fire Department for a crash that shattered his future on the front lines. The incident nearly killed Smothers, but it also implemented changes that others on the department believe killed another young man trapped in an apartment fire.Smothers says he is taking the department to court because he fears insufficient training could claim someone else’s life. “I was on the red bumper on the back step of the fire engine grabbing a hose and as I begin to turn that's when everything just went dark. My spinal cord was partially severed. Everything on the left side of me was pretty much crushed — broken leg. I'm missing a lung,” said Smothers.