Linemen spend much of their offseason lifting weights to try and build up as
much strength as possible. It's part and parcel of the identity of playing
along football's front line. Still, three members of the Forest Park (Ind.)
High offensive line took those feats of strength a bit further on Saturday,
when they lifted and flipped an overturned, burning pickup truck to
save a pregnant woman who was trapped inside.
much strength as possible. It's part and parcel of the identity of playing
along football's front line. Still, three members of the Forest Park (Ind.)
High offensive line took those feats of strength a bit further on Saturday,
when they lifted and flipped an overturned, burning pickup truck to
save a pregnant woman who was trapped inside.
According to the Dubois County Herald and Forest Park's football
booster club website,Anthony Fischer, Austin Kempf and Ethan Knust
were entering Rural King, an Indiana chain of farm and home stores,
when a car spun out and was involved in a fiery crash.
booster club website,Anthony Fischer, Austin Kempf and Ethan Knust
were entering Rural King, an Indiana chain of farm and home stores,
when a car spun out and was involved in a fiery crash.
After traversing a virtual obstacle course just to get to the crash -- the
Herald reported that the trio ran through a deep roadside ditch and
stomped down a barbed-wire fence just to reach the struggling
passengers in the wreck -- the linemen helped the driver out of his
trapped seat while flames started to lap against his overturned truck.
As soon as he was freed, the driver reached back in to rescue his 3-
year-old daughter.
Herald reported that the trio ran through a deep roadside ditch and
stomped down a barbed-wire fence just to reach the struggling
passengers in the wreck -- the linemen helped the driver out of his
trapped seat while flames started to lap against his overturned truck.
As soon as he was freed, the driver reached back in to rescue his 3-
year-old daughter.
That's when he told the linemen his pregnant wife was trapped inside
the truck, and the boys sprang into action. First, the trio got additional
help from two other bystanders -- an older man in a back brace and a
woman in a military uniform -- and then coordinated a five-man lift
to flip the truck over, all while the automobile's engine compartment
was lapped by flames.
the truck, and the boys sprang into action. First, the trio got additional
help from two other bystanders -- an older man in a back brace and a
woman in a military uniform -- and then coordinated a five-man lift
to flip the truck over, all while the automobile's engine compartment
was lapped by flames.
The group effort overturned the truck in time for the woman to escape
without further incident, ensuring that everyone in the accident survived
without any significant harm.
without further incident, ensuring that everyone in the accident survived
without any significant harm.
All in a day's work for humanitarian linemen in the middle of Indiana.
While normal civilians might have considered the near-World's Strongest
Man feat an act of heroic intervention, the three football players hardly
seemed surprised that they pulled off the feat at all.
While normal civilians might have considered the near-World's Strongest
Man feat an act of heroic intervention, the three football players hardly
seemed surprised that they pulled off the feat at all.
"We're football players and I knew we could do it," Fischer told the Herald.
Added Kempf: "We had to flip the truck over. It was just a midsize truck."
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