WV Farm Bureau Magazine April 2014 | Page 21

Hampshire County Farm Bureau Vice President Rescues Woman from Burning Vehicle reprinted with permission from the Hampshire Review The weather was so warm and sunny on March 11, county resident Lisa Polk decided that it would be a fine day to take a drive over the state line to Virginia to get some new eyeglasses at Walmart. Traveling down Route 50 in the early afternoon, Polk suddenly swerved to avoid a patch of potholes. She lost control of her car and crashed into a tree along the roadway. “I remember landing in the passenger side floorboard and seeing the airbags deployed in front of me,” Polk recounted last week. “The next thing I remembered was )