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On December 16, 2004, James Lonnie Hensley of Skygusty, West Virginia, and his wife, Regina, were driving from Norfolk to Welch. Hearing a loud noise, Hensley checked his rearview mirror and observed the aftermath of a head-on collision between two trucks.
While Mrs. Hensley called emergency rescue operations, Hensley ran to the scene of the crash. He found that an Appalachian Power utility truck was burning. "Me and my wife were the first ones there," Hensley told the Bluefield Daily Telegraph. "Fire was coming out from under the hood, and it kept getting worse and worse."
Hensley and several others who happened on the scene tried in vain ...