Two Men and a Truck St. Louis – “Movers Who Care” also Save Lives!
We had the privilege to work with the team from Two Men and a Truck St. Louis during a corporate team building activity to deliver Cheeriodicals to Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital. This Two Men and a Truck office donated their time, effort and resources to deliver 220 Cheeriodicals on a day where the temperatures were below zero and with more than a foot of snow on the ground.
We knew they were “movers who care” when we saw the effort they gave to this event, but the story that came out today is even more extraordinary. The story that follows details 3 of their movers saving the life of a young woman after her car crash in Missouri. What an amazing story!
SUNSET HILLS, MO (KTVI)-Three young men returning back to their office after a moving job was cancelled are being hailed as heroes. A fiery crash at I-270 and Gravois around 8:30 Saturday morningnearly killed Jessica Apenbrinck of High Ridge. The crash was an accident. To those involved, her rescue certainly was not.
“It’s a miracle in a sense,” said Brandon Hausler, 18, a mover for Two Men and a Truck moving.
It was because of the canceled move that Hausler, Brandon Lawler, 19, and Darreal Boykin, 20, were back on the road and “there” when they needed to be, right behind Apenbrinck when she went off went off I-270, overturned, hit the bluff, and caught fire.
“No brakes or nothing, slid down, hit a guard rail full speed, flipped up and ended up on the side of the road upside down,” Lawler said.
It was Boykin who put out the fire with the truck’s fire extinguisher.
“Do what you can, because you’re hoping someone would do it for you. Anyone can be someone else’s savior,” he said.
A lifeless Jessica was trapped behind the wheel.
“That’s when I stuck my head in and I gave her four rescue breaths. That’s when her pulse came back,” Hausler said.
Firefighters then cut the mangled wreckage to get her out.
Later that day, Brandon Hausler couldn’t shake the images.
“I kept thinking of her. That’s why I went up to the hospital to see her…I left her a flower and a note,” he said.
“I am writing this letter because my crew and I were at the scene. I do not know you but i have faith that you can pull through this … stay strong and keep God close to you,” he wrote.
“[He] asked if it was ok to come see her,” said Apenbrinck’s mother, Renee Laury. “My response was, you just saved my daughter’s life. You are more than welcome to come to the hospital to see my daughter. I believe in acts of God … he climbed into a burning car with my daughter to start CPR. My car had a full tank of gas. It could have exploded. Yes, they saved her life.”
Jessica has several broken bones in her face and a broken collar bone. But her internal bleeding has stopped. In 2 days after that awful crash she’s gone from critical to satisfactory condition. There’s still no word on why she went off the road. She can’t remember the crash.
Video coverage can be seen at the following link: http://fox2now.com/2015/02/02/moving-crew-helps-save-womans-life-after-rollover-crash/
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