'I didn't think I was going to make it': Florida man rescued after log hauler flips, falls on his truck

MARION COUNTY, Fla. - A Florida man is grateful to paramedics and firefighters who helped rescue him from his pickup truck after it became pinned beneath a large commercial truck that was hauling dozens of tree logs. 

"When they cut me out of that thing, I didn't think I was going to make it out of the truck alive," said Render Lee Grizzard. 

Marion County Fire Rescue said a log truck overturned Wednesday evening near West Highway 326 and NW Highway 225, spilling its haul of logs on top of Grizzard's pickup truck. He was taken to the hospital, treated, and released.

(Photo via Marion County Fire Rescue)

Grizzard told FOX 35 in an exclusive interview on Thursday that he saw the logs fall and quickly dove over to the floor on the passenger side of his truck.

"I just told them they were really great, there was no way if I'd have stayed in that truck another 30 minutes I would have never made it out of there," he said.

He said it took about 90 minutes to free him from his vehicle, adding that first responders gave him oxygen and talked him through each step.

Photos shared on Marion County Fire Rescue's Facebook page show more than a dozen full-sized logs top Grizzard's silver truck, that's cab was crushed.

The crash itself is under investigation by Florida Highway Patrol.