BATON ROUGE, Louisiana -
A Baton Rouge firefighter is counting his blessings after a tornado hit his pickup truck while he was in it Friday.
The whole thing was caught on surveillance video at a gas station. You can see the white pickup in the top right corner of the screen sitting in the parking lot before the wind slams a nearby tree to the ground, and a second later, the truck goes flying into the air.
"It picked up my truck like it was a toy and threw it," said Baton Rouge firefighter Dustin Spiess. "The back of my truck lifted up and I was looking straight at the ground through my windshield."
Spiess said his truck landed fender first on the pavement. He walked away with a few cuts and bruises.
Video at link:
http://www.newson6.com/story/35451939/tornado-tosses-baton-rouge-firefighter-truck
