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: Physician Assistant, Off-Duty Firefighter Rescue NJ Turnpike Driver Engulfed In Flames
A Good Samaritan and off-duty corrections officer extinguished a fire that consumed box truck driver after crashing on the NJ Turnpike Monday afternoon in Union County. Jordan Reed was headed southbound when he saw the tractor-trailer cab hit a sign pole about a mile before Exit 12 and burst into flames around 1:15 p.m. in Linden, he told Daily Voice. Reed -- an emergency medicine physician's assistant with a decade of experience as an EMT -- pulled over to render aid to the driver -- who was fully-engulfed in flames. "He had been already removed from his truck by a New Jersey corrections …