Fort Scott students help man who crashed into a tree - KOAM TV 7
Fort Scott students help man who crashed into a tree  Posted:
Updated:  Some Fort Scott High School students are the talk of
the town after a heroic rescue.  The students were walking home
from school last week when they saw a mini van drive off the
road and into a tree.  The driver had suffered a seizure and
lost control of the vehicle.  The students called 911 and played
a role in rescuing him from the vehicle as it filled with smoke.
"I saw that there was a car that looked like it hit a tree and I
just figured maybe somebody's brakes gave out and I got up there
and there was people yelling and stuff beating on the windows,"
says Kyle Perry, a junior at Fort Scott High School.  "I looked
down in the passenger seat and there was a guy laying there and
the van was filling up with smoke so we were trying to break the
window and I couldn't do it with a rock so I grabbed my pocket
knife and started hitting it with that," says Skyler Cruse, also
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