The semi-truck was on its side when Brandon Bair reached it.

It was May 6, 2021, in St. Anthony, Idaho. A train had struck the semi during a daytime accident, overturning it onto the driver’s side and pushing it about a quarter mile along the railroad tracks before it finally stopped.

Inside the truck was Steven W. Jenson.

He was 25 years old, severely injured, and pinned in the driver’s seat. Fire was already burning at the truck’s front end near the front of the train. Dark smoke was coming from the wreckage.

Jenson could not free himself.

Bair was among the people who stopped at the scene. He was 36 years old and worked as a businessman. He went to the overturned truck and heard Jenson calling out.

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The normal access points were gone.

The truck was on its side. The driver was trapped. The front of the truck was burning.

Bair found another way in.

The rear windshield had been broken out. Bair entered through that opening up to his waist.

Inside, he removed Jenson’s seat belt. Then he pushed the steering wheel away from him. That created the space Jenson needed to help with the extraction.

Bair grasped him under the arms.

Jenson used his feet to push off from inside the cab as Bair pulled from the opening. Together, they worked him out of the truck until he was clear.

Getting him out of the cab was not the end.

The truck was still on the tracks. The fire was still growing. Bair helped Jenson off the tracks. Then, with help from another man, he moved him farther away from the burning wreck.

The fire continued spreading until it consumed the truck.

Jenson suffered burns to his legs and other injuries. He was flown to a hospital and underwent treatment for about three weeks.

Bair was not injured.

The rescue depended on a narrow opening at the back of a wrecked semi and a short list of problems that had to be solved in order.

Seat belt.

Steering wheel.

Pinned driver.

Fire.

Bair did not have to stop the fire. He had to get Jenson out before the fire reached the part of the truck where he was trapped.

He found the opening that remained and used it.

Brandon Bair stopped at a train crash, went to a burning overturned semi-truck, entered through the broken rear windshield, removed Steven Jenson’s seat belt, pushed the steering wheel away, pulled him out, and helped move him away from the tracks before the truck was consumed by fire.

That is what he did.

It is worth noticing because the crash had already taken away the normal paths out. The semi was on its side. The driver was pinned. Fire and smoke were building at the front end.

Bair worked through the only opening still available.

A train struck a semi and pushed it down the tracks. A driver was trapped inside. Bair reached in from the rear windshield and pulled him out.

That changed what happened next.

If the only opening into a burning semi was the broken rear windshield, would you climb in far enough to reach the driver?