Dive Summary:
- An MTA executive's quick thinking to use the winch from a sanitation truck helped to pull a woman from a burning truck that was involved in an accident.
- The truck was crushed after a multi-vehicle pile-up on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in Staten Island, New York, which resulted in life-threatening injuries.
- The driver of the private Century Waste Services garbage truck—also involved in the accident—used the truck's winch to pull the truck off the railing so authorities could pull a passenger out of the flaming vehicle.
From the article:
... Despite his efforts, the blaze kept re-lighting -- "underneath, there was some kind of fuel line break. It kept re-igniting the flames," Moy said.
Ms. Xie [the passenger] was taken to Staten Island University Hospital, Ocean Breeze, in "very critical condition," Ms. Glave said. The driver of the box truck was taken to Lutheran Hospital in Brooklyn. ...
