12 september 2019
courtesymainestate^ police“I Had to Get Him Out”
By Andy SimmonsT
he sound that woke Damian
Languell at 8:15 in the morning
was so loud he assumed it came
from inside his house in Wade, Maine.
As he got up to investigate, he heard
another sound, this one coming most
definitely from outside. Peering out
his bedroom window, he spied a tree
engulfed in smoke about 500 yardsaway. A car was wrapped around the
tree’s base, its engine on fire.
“I grabbed buckets of water,”
Languell told thecounty.me. Then
he and his girlfriend ran to the crash
site. The wreck looked worse up
close. The car, a 1998 Buick Regal,
was split nearly in two, and the tree
was where the driver’s seat oughtDamian Languell was
convinced no one
could have survived
this crash.