Hero: Ambulance Firefighters

By: WSLS-TV Staff Reports | WSLS
Published: March 10, 2008

"You could just hear a loud, bang, explosion,” Jeff Prouix said.
That sound came from inside a Greenbrier West Virginia ambulance as it pulled into Roanoke Memorial last June.
"I turned around and the back doors were opening up, and you could just see smoke coming out," he said.
That's when Prouix and three other men, all Roanoke City Fire and EMS workers, came to the rescue.
Prouix and Adam Fleming grabbed fire extinguishers while David Lucas pulled out the patient.
"The ambulance was full of smoke, you really couldn't see the patient inside the ambulance," Lucas said.
The ambulance attendant managed to climb out the front but had severe burns.
Alan Mitchell helped him get inside and get medical attention.
"You can prepare yourself all you want. You do training everyday. But until something happens, you know, your instinct is what takes over, and you know what you got to do," Fleming said.
"It's our job and we're expected to do it day in and day out," Mitchell said.
Even so, it's a job well done.

Hero: Ambulance Firefighters

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