Heroic students drag biker from beneath car

THE students knew they had to act quickly when they disregarded the dangers of approaching a smoking car and rushed to help lift it so a man — trapped beneath with a motorcycle just feet away in flames — could be freed.

Abbass Sharif remembers only that something needed to be done as he, a fellow Utah State University doctoral candidate and more than half dozen others lined up on one side of the 4,000-pound car. They were able to lift it within moments, allowing one of the rescuers to pull Brandon Wright to safety.

After the heroic act, Logan’s Assistant Police Chief Jeff Curtis said one could “only speculate what the outcome would have been” had none of the rescuers sprung to action.