Navy Seabee's Rescue Family in Car Crash (HD)

[O. Lyles]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p09l5wcyhcc

BUELLTON, Calif (NNS) -- Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction
Battalion (NMCB) 3 and the 31st Seabee Readiness Group (SRG)
helped to rescue a family involved in a car wreck on Highway 101
in Buellton, Calif., Jan. 12.

Equipment Operator 1st Class (SCW) Frankie Cruz, Construction
Mechanic 2nd Class (SCW) Michael McCracken, and Equipment
Operator Constructionman Clinton Roberts of NMCB 3 along with
Construction Mechanic 2nd Class (SCW) Shawn Legg, Construction
Mechanic 2nd Class (SCW) Benjamin Mead, and Construction
Mechanic 3rd Class (SCW) James Winters from the 31SRG helped to
rescue the family of the wrecked vehicle by operating a forklift
to keep the car from sliding off the bridge while rescue crews
extracted the family of three.

"As the fire department was cutting the car to get the family
out, it kept on slipping over the bridge and faced a 100 foot
fall," said McCracken, the forklift operator. "I talked to the
fire captain in charge and he was excited to hear that we had an
extendable-boom forklift just 200 to 300 feet behind the wreck
and he said to go get it."

"They [the Seabees] came up, they all got out and wanted to know
if they could help maybe with traffic or something else", said
Officer Danny Maher, California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer.
"They had a large forklift with them, and we were able to obtain
and have them use so they could support the BMW as it was
teetering on the side of the bridge; they supported the BMW so
the fire department could get in and extricate the parties."

Story by Chief Mass Communication Specialist (SCW/SW/AW) Jesse
A. Sherwin III, Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 3 Public
Affairs.