It was a scary case of deja vu for a volunteer fire company in Northampton County Tuesday morning. A garbage truck narrowly missed crashing into the Leithsville Volunteer Fire Company.
"You first freak out," Hellertown resident Nathaniel Griffin said. "The whole house is shaking like a train is going by."
It was an accident that got Griffin's attention. Griffin lives next door to the Leithsville Volunteer Fire Company in Lower Saucon Township and said he ran off of his porch with a fire extinguisher to help put out the flames.
Griffin made his move after a garbage truck snapped a telephone pole in half and crushed a parked vehicle just feet from his home. Thankfully no one was severely injured.
"I mean your heart gets pumping and you just go, do what you have to do," Griffin said.
Two years ago a similar accident caused a much different scene. Back in 2012, a dump truck crashed into the fire company sparking a massive fire. One person was killed, another seriously injured, and the building and three fire trucks were destroyed.
Police say the driver in this latest crash knew about the 2012 accident and did everything he could to avoid hitting the fire house after his brakes failed.
"The area where this happened, it is a 40 mile per hour speed zone," Corporal Timothy Connell of the Lower Saucon Township Police said. "Vehicles tend to pick up speed coming down a hill."
Griffin moved in next to the volunteer fire station in September, and says he just feels lucky Tuesday's accident wasn't as destructive.
"I give props to the driver he did a really good job, you know, making it a little incident," Griffin said. "It could have been a lot worse."
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