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RANDOLPH COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) — A teen is in the hospital after a car crash in Randolph County on Saturday night and first responders said it was something most of them had never seen happen before.
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The North Carolina State Highway Patrol said a 17-year-old driving a pickup truck went over the center line, overcorrected and went off the road, eventually colliding with a utility pole. First responders said the driver was ejected and pinned under that pole after the wreck.
Franklinville Fire Chief Kyle Dixon said he is proud of his crews who responded and were able to get the victim unpinned in under an hour and on the way to a hospital for treatment.
“When you call 911 we don’t have the option to say we don’t do that,” Dixon said.
In spite of the fact that most firefighters on scene said they had never experienced a wreck like this, they worked through it. Despite the precarious nature of the situation raising questions, they said instincts kicked in.
Driver thrown from pickup truck in Franklinville, pinned beneath power pole taken to hospital, firefighters say (Franklinville Fire Department) 
Driver thrown from pickup truck in Franklinville, pinned beneath power pole taken to hospital, firefighters say (Franklinville Fire Department) 
Driver thrown from pickup truck in Franklinville, pinned beneath power pole taken to hospital, firefighters say (Franklinville Fire Department) 
Driver thrown from pickup truck in Franklinville, pinned beneath power pole taken to hospital, firefighters say (Franklinville Fire Department) 
Driver thrown from pickup truck in Franklinville, pinned beneath power pole taken to hospital, firefighters say (Franklinville Fire Department)
“It just all comes to you when you get there. I mean, I really didn’t think a lot. I just did,” Captain Victor Coward, who led the response team, said.
EMTs tended to the patient while firefighters used stabilizers to keep the pole in place so it wouldn’t move and cause any more injuries.
“We’re all in a little circle around the subject, and everybody throwing ideas and you know just talking to us. We work together every shift, and so we know each other. We just talk through,” Coward said.
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Even without seeing this situation before, Chief Dixon said his crew’s instincts and ideas were supported by training.
“The training is very important. One thing in Randolph County is we’ve had some great instructors come through here that we were fortunate enough to have train us in different areas and we go all through the state and take different courses,” Dixon said.
Line workers came to the scene to secure the live wires, and EMTs tended to the patient while firefighters used an air pressure shovel to dig the patient out from underneath the pole through dirt and rock.
Firefighters George Leonard and Tracy Craven said it was a challenging scene, but something they felt confident they could achieve through collaboration and communication.
“I think the extrication took approximately 30 to 40 minutes but sometimes it feels like a lifetime. This is one of those calls that I have never seen before. And – training, training, training, training. Initially, and right when I got on the scene, I realized everybody was working real well together, everybody had a role and we all just took turns,” Leonard said.
These are the types of calls firefighters say stay with them and they pass the knowledge of how to help through the ranks.
“We’ll definitely bring it to training, that way the younger guys know, they might run into this 20 or 30 years down the road and they’ll be prepared,” Craven said.
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