Dash-cam video: Wheel chocks, bar & quick thinking Santa Fe firefighters stop drunk driver.

I remember running a call for a man unconscious at a traffic signal. When we arrived on the scene, sure enough the guy was passed out at the wheel, with his foot on the brake, on a highway with a slight downward slope. Only the luck of the drunk kept his car in place until I reached in, put the transmission in park and grabbed the keys out of the ignition.

But Santa Fe, New Mexico firefighters did much better than that. Faced with a somewhat more difficult situation Wednesday night they reached into their tool bag and prevented a police chase and possible harm to others. A combination of fire engine strength wheel chocks and a little forcible entry on a window kept a man police are describing as highly intoxicated from speeding off as the first cop arrived. Watch the video above.