Rescue Truck Hit by Train
This would increase the pucker factor (from the Glenwood Springs Post Independent).
A Burning Mountains Fire Protection District rescue truck was struck by a freight train between Silt and New Castle Saturday. The truck, driven by fireman Austin Coryell, was on a training drive Saturday around noon, said Burning Mountains Chief Brit McLin.
The truck was in the middle of the track when the train bore down on it.
“He said he thought the signal might be broken and he did not see the train until its air horn went off,” McLin said.
Coryell then sped up and the train caught the truck in the rear bumper, spinning it off the track and sending it down an embankment where it was stopped by a telephone pole.
Luckily, nobody was hurt.
Photo courtesy of the Glenwood Springs Post Independent.
Comments
I do think that "the rest of the story" is worthy of being told. The train certainly did not "bear down" on the Fire Engine, and as I am led to believe, there are some important issues associated with this event that are worthy of sharing.
Posted by: Brian Humphrey at March 29, 2006 12:48 PM
