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Following a car crash in Kingsteignton, a Devon firefighter was taken to hospital on a spinal board with a suspected back and neck injury last weekend.
He was cut from his car by his colleagues, and strapped to a spinal board before being taken to Torbay Hospital by ambulance.
The car accident victim's watch commander said: "When we arrived the ambulance service were already there. Although he was not trapped in his car he was complaining of pain in his neck and back.
"We used hydraulic equipment to cut a space in the side of the vehicle so the paramedics could remove him comfortably and he was placed on a spinal board and was taken to Torbay Hospital by road ambulance."
The police closed the road briefly while the emergency services extracted the man.
After a brief period in hospital, the firefighter was released, with his neck injury diagnosed as whiplash. The other driver is not thought to have suffered personal injury.
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