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The other was treated for head and leg injuries. The one who had been unconscious spent nearly two weeks on a ventilator in the intensive care unit of a Tulsa hospital. Rimpley said the families of both victims have been keeping him and Salisbury updated on their conditions. “They said it was six minutes,” from the time the emergency call was received until they got to the scene, said Rimpley. So we got a pair of pliers and cut the wires to the fan motor and threw it out into the road,” said Salisbury.įirefighters and ambulance crews eventually made it to the scene and took over. “But then we noticed the fan motor had fallen out from underneath the dash and it was shorting out, smoking. They noticed one of her legs was severely injured, so they tried to distract her from looking at it. Rimpley got the fire under control as the men went to check on the other girl, who was trapped in a van, Salisbury said. At first I thought she was dead, but I put my hand on her and could tell she was alive but unconscious,” Salisbury recalled.

I started trying to check on the girl in the car. “Ricky started spraying the fire that was underneath the hood of the car. Those are standard equipment in VVEC trucks, so Salisbury grabbed one extinguisher, Rimpley grabbed another and they headed toward the Mazda. “We pulled up and a guy that was already there ran up to our truck and asked if we had a fire extinguisher.” “There were two cars in the road that had a wreck, and there was smoke coming out of one of them,” said Salisbury, lead maintenance lineman at Verdigris Valley Electric Cooperative in Collinsville. That put an Oklahoma co-op crew on the road a little later-and just in time to help the victims of a head-on car and van crash.Īs Roger Salisbury and Ricky Rimpley pulled their truck onto a state highway near Claremore in early September, they could see trouble ahead. It’s a good thing they stopped to update their iPad before heading to the next job. (L-R) Ricky Rimpley and Roger Salisbury hold letters of recognition from U.S.