Great story, but if someone is pinned between the steering wheel and seat, how hard it is to climb in thru the back window and slice cut the seatback parts with a chopsaw?
What a shame you weren’t there.
Firefighters are trained to do as much damage as possible to the vehicle.
My daughter in law had an accident with my son’s Corvette, that rendered it undrivable due to damage to the cooling system. The fire department refused to allow the towtruck driver to load it on his truck until they had cut the battery cables, which was totally unnessary because lowjack had already disconnected the battery from all parts of the electrical system.
The driver argued with them and they threatened to have him arrested.
They found that that they could not open the hood, so they asked him how to open it. He explained that the lowjack was in control, and that he would have to energize the hood latches through the lighter plug.
When he got it open, he showed them the interlock at the battery that had automatically disconnected it, but they still cut both cables and the radiator hose too, because they thought it was in their way.
Car seats have airbags in them now. Guess what happens if you short out two wires with the chop saw.
My hub is a firefighter and he’s told stories about car crashes and extrications. They are not easy to do most of the time, and they are well trained, have various tools, and if they did not go in from the back, there was a reason for it.