Dawson EMTs hailed as heroes

FORSYTH COUNTY -- It seemed like business as usual for Dawson County firefighters and emergency medical technicians Andy Scott and Frankie Everhart the evening of April 9. But business as usual in the world of EMTs means that night they helped save a little girl's life.

The EMTs were going home to Dawson County after dropping off a patient at Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville, traveling Ga. 53 through the tip of Forsyth County. Then they came upon a fiery two-car accident just seconds after it happened.

"We just happened to be at the right place at the right time," said Scott. "We got there and people were telling us that the children in the car were on fire."

Immediately the men ran to the scene of the accident. There they found Harry R. Spitz, a 47-year-old Gainesville father who had been driving his two daughters home when they were rear-ended by another driver, Elezar Alvarez, 21, of Gainesville.

The Spitz family's Geo Tracker burst into flames upon impact. Heroically Spitz pulled both his daughters, 5 and 8, from the car. While he and his oldest suffered only minor burns, the 5-year-old suffered severe burns over 40 percent of her body.

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