An SUV crashed into a house and caught fire Wednesday afternoon in Mont Alto, PA.
The driver was killed, and his passenger seriously injured.
Witnesses told firefighters they saw the vehicle being operated at a high rate of speed before the driver lost control and struck the wall of the house. No one was home at the time.
Mont Alto firefighters were worried about the structural stability of the house as they worked to free the entrapped passenger.
A man working on a nearby house ran to help.
"I said, 'I’m here, keep talking to me, we're gonna get through this. The 911 operator told me to try to keep him calm, and as I was taking the bricks off the passenger said he couldn't breathe. He had the airbag around his head. I took the airbag off and I just stayed with him," Matthew Gossert told The Public Opinion.
When the car caught on fire, Gossert said he grabbed a garden hose and worked to get the fire out from under the vehicle.
The wall rained bricks on the vehicle and the occupants.
Mont Alto firefighters called for additional resources as they worked into the night at the crash scene.
