Firefighter reveals moment he was called to son's crash
The night started as any normal evening would for firefighter Frank Schacht.
A message about a traffic accident came through the radio. Several people were injured and some were still in the car.
As the German firefighter got out of bed, his wife’s phone rang. Everything changed when Mr Schacht discovered the caller was friends with both his sons.
“I’ve been afraid of nothing for decades,” he wrote in a post on Facebook about the incident.
“God, never let me save my own family.”
His two sons had been at a party.
“Road fits. Time fits,” he wrote.
Mr Schacht said he got into his command car and drove straight to the scene and on the way remembered a traffic accident where the son of a good friend had died.
He said he was one of the first at the scene and he looked into the vehicle. He could see the driver was already being treated.
He ran to the other car involved as more emergency services arrived on scene.
“I see him lying on the floor. His girlfriend kneels next to him, an ambulance crew starts with first measures,” Mr Schacht wrote in the post.
His son was one of the four in the car injured. His other son was thankfully still at the party.
Mr Schacht said he was pulled away from the car and he felt “helpless” as he waited and watched emergency services tend to his son.
“Countless times I did the same thing to other people. It doesn’t seem real to stand on the other side now,” he said.
More than 70 people were on scene looking after the victims and Mr Schacht said he was grateful for the professional support.
His son was taken to intensive care where he recovered alongside the others who were injured.
“A single second can change our lives permanently. We should be aware of this at any time in all our everyday lives,” he wrote in his Facebook post.
