TECHNICALLY, IT WAS A CORRECT DISPATCH.  But when the Windsor, Ontario, firefighters arrived on the scene they weren’t expecting to find an airplane on fire beside the roadway.

A small, 2-seater plane had just left the Windsor airport a short while before when the engine conked out and the plane began to descend.  The pilot was trying to guide the plane onto a highway when the wheels clipped a power line and flipped the plane onto the grassy area between the road and a railroad track.

Windsor Star photo of the crumpled remains
of the small plane that crashed Sunday.

A neighbor, George Demarce, who saw the crash grabbed his attached garden hose and pulled it as close to the flaming wreckage as possible.  “I just sprayed as much as I could,” he said.  “That one guy stuck inside was yelling pretty good. He was engulfed in flames,” Demarce’s wife Jan said later. “Seeing someone on fire, it’s scary. But you still carry on with what you have to do.” 

His actions no doubt helped save the lives of the two men who were trapped and burning aboard the plane.  Both of them are in the hospital with burns and related injuries.

The Windsor Star has the complete STORY.

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