A plow truck caught fire today at a busy Midtown Anchorage intersection, sending one person to the hospital with injuries.
Sitka resident Camille Ferguson was in Anchorage for a state wrestling tournament that her grandson was competing in over the weekend. She, along with her daughter Mary Ferguson and her granddaughter Trista Elixman, drove by the scene soon after the truck had caught fire.
“We noticed the flames in the truck. And then when we got close, we seen there was a guy in there,” Camille Ferguson said. She said her daughter, who has a background in law enforcement, immediately decided to pull over the car to help. “Both of us jumped out, and ran to the door. We opened up the door to try to help him out because flames were in the cab. And we grabbed his arm and just started pulling as hard we could,” Ferguson said Saturday evening.Eventually, the women were able to pull the man free of the cab despite a large snow berm partially blocking the door, she said.
The experience was surreal, but Ferguson said she was proud of her daughter for her instinct to help.Authorities aren’t sure yet what caused the fire, which resulted in minor injuries to the truck’s occupant, said Boyd, the assistant fire chief.The truck did not strike any other vehicles, and appeared to be at rest when it caught fire, he said.Annie Berman covers health care for the Anchorage Daily News.
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