A retired Seminole County firefighter still has what it takes to make a rescue. This time, it was a boat.
When he got the call from a lieutenant on Friday, Terry Myers and his wife rushed to launch their boat into Lake Jesup as a motorcyclist had been launched off a bridge after a wreck, WESH reported.
The two cranked up their boat and took the crew from Engine 35 up the lake.
"It was perfect timing. We beat the fire department's boat there by five minutes just because I was here. Those split seconds can mean the world. I mean it means a life," he said.
Firefighters on the bridge were trying to assist him as best they could.
"Luckily, the guys on the bridge had already thrown him a floatation device and a rope. It doesn't always happen that way. It doesn't always happen that he was so lucky that he didn't get knocked out going over the bridge. He was able to hold on to the pole until they threw him something. Minutes, minutes count big time. It's a life. In a lot of cases, it is."
