MA State Police Pull Man From Burning Truck

MATTAPOISETT, MA — Massachusetts State Police troopers on Saturday pulled an unconscious man from a burning truck after a horrific crash on Interstate 195 in Mattapoisett. Trooper Brandyn Henson and his field trainee Trooper Matthew Holden — who last month graduated from the State Police Academy — made the rescue on the eastbound side of the highway at about 10 a.m. Police said a 39-year-old Rochester man was driving a Dodge Dakota when for an unknown reason he veered the vehicle off the road.

"(The vehicle) drifted to the right into snow and began to fish-tale," State Police said in a statement. "The vehicle then crossed back over both travel lanes and struck a tree in the median."

Henson and Holden arrived to find "smoke and flames billowing out of the engine compartment and the operator unconscious in the driver’s seat wearing his seatbelt."

Henson smashed the driver's-side window with his baton while Holden sprayed the blaze with a fire extinguisher. They then pulled the man from the wreckage. The driver was transported to Tobey Hospital with unknown injuries.

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