What do you do when a heavy-duty fork lift topples at a construction site, taking down power lines and catching fire, while the pinned driver is bleeding from injuries in the vehicle's electrified cab, which is being bathed in leaking diesel fuel?
It sounds like a question from a test in an emergency responder class, but Jersey City firefighters faced the situation last Monday and managed to extricate the injured driver in less than 20 minutes.
"It was a complicated rescue and the situation turned out as well as possible," said Battalion Chief Robert Forenza, who was in command of the rescue.
