VIDEO: A local volunteer firefighter shared the moments he worked with other first responders to rescue a woman who was pinned under the bus in Friday’s crash on I-90 in Pembroke, which killed five people and injured many others.
The rescue crews are being called heroes, but they say they were just doing their jobs.
“Hero? Nah. Just a guy trying to help,” said David Olsen, a volunteer firefighter for the Indian Falls Fire Department. “There were a lot of us and that’s what it takes.”
Olsen’s actions, and the actions of many other first responders, saved lives after the tour bus crash, which involved a total of 54 people.
The Pembroke and Indian Falls fire departments were one of the first to arrive on the scene.
“I’ve been an EMT since 83 and I was a police officer for 32 years, and I’ve never come across anything like what we had Friday afternoon,” said Edward Mileham Jr., the assistant chief of the Pembroke Fire Department.
