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A War Zone

Posted Jan 10, 2008 by Valerie Kalfrin

Updated Jan 10, 2008 at 03:37 PM

Douglas Galliher, 65, of Auburndale, came by Fantasy of Flight to take pictures for his boss. Investigators are keeping cars involved in Wednesday’s horrific Interstate 4 crash at the attraction.

Galliher is a tow truck operator for Webb’s Towing in Lakeland.

“It looked like a war zone.  A lot of cars were tore up.  It was amazing, absolutely amazing, more people didn’t get killed.  It was such intense fire it melted the asphalt.”

Galliher described how the crews used recovery machinery such as forklifts to move wreckage. 

They found a car buried beneath an overturned rock truck.

“While scraping up debris, we come upon a car.  It was so burned, it melted the license plate off.”

Rescuers put the remains of a driver in a body bag, Galliher said. 

“It tore me up.  I broke down yesterday.  I was already upset real bad.”