Douglas County authorities ordered the evacuation of dozens of homes early Friday morning after a tractor-trailer tanker truck carrying ammonium nitrate lost control, crashed, and tipped over on Wilson Road near Highway 5.
Carrie Jetzke, owner of West Georgia Spay Neuter Clinic, told Channel 2’s Tom Regan she spotted the toppled tanker on her way to work and went to help the driver.
“I saw his head poke out of the window, and I immediately got out and asked if he was OK. He was in complete shock. He could barely sit up. He didn’t physically seem to be hurt. I crawled up on the side and held onto what he could, and he was shaking. I just grabbed him from the waist, and pulled him out, and sat with him until EMS came,” Jetzke said…