Truck Runs Over Woman While Barn Burns

Fire rips through several buildings while a truck runs over a women - it all happened at the same time, on the same property in Charleston, Tennessee.

When our crew arrived on the scene we found firefighters spraying what was left of several buildings behind James Lones' home in Charleston.

"My wife called me and said there was a bail of hay on fire...I was in town and I hurried up here and the fire department done here and everything is done gone," Lones says.

Smoke still rises slowly off the charred remains a short time after firefighters put the blaze out. They tell us everything started when a bail of hay caught on fire.

"A lot of times if you put hay up too early and it's still green it catches on fire itself due to the heat," Lt. Dewayne May, with the Bradley County Fire and Rescue, says. "The hay was stacked in one barn area and it quickly spread to the other buildings because they were so close in proximity to each other...[they] had some equipment and stuff in them storage buildings so that made it that much harder to get to."

But even after firefighters managed to put the fire out they had to bring in a Bobcat to help keep the remaining bales of hay from burning. But they weren't the only ones trying to save parts of the property. Lones' wife tried to move his truck, which was loaded with hay, away from the inferno.

"She was going to move my truck and couldn't get it to crank so she got out of it and it took off and rolled over her legs," Lones says.

But the truck didn't stop there - it picked up speed and smashed head on into a tree. But even his property scorched and his wife injured, Lones says it's a good thing she managed to bail out before the truck lit into the tree.

"Yeah it sure is or she wouldn't be here today," Lones says.

Lones tells us his wife broke both her ankle and wrist and E.M.S. took her to the hospital.