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The Metrowest Daily News (Online) Wrong car cut in fire drill By Jennifer Rosinski Sunday, November 10, 2002 FRAMINGHAM - Firefighters practicing how to use the Jaws of Life cutting tool broke an important rule Friday: They tore apart the wrong car. A Framingham man found his 1998 Honda Accord on Loring Drive Friday morning without a roof and doors, police said. Antonio Rocha, 32, parked his black coupe behind the fire department's headquarters sometime between 8 and 10 a.m., and walked across the street to the Adesa car auctions on Western Avenue, according to the police report. At 10 a.m., Framingham firefighters started a Jaws of Life drill behind the fire station, Fire Chief Michael Smith told police. There were three cars. Two hours earlier, Smith told police, there were only two cars parked behind the station. The additional car didn't faze the firefighters, police said.  They believed it was a "junk car" that could be cut apart. Firefighters realized they had practiced on the wrong car shortly after 11:30 a.m., police said.  An employee of Tofani Coachworks told Smith about a man who came into their auto body shop, located behind the fire station on Irving Street. That man was Rocha, and he claimed the fire department "cut up" his car, police said. Rocha and Smith could not be reached for comment yesterday.  A deputy fire chief reached at the fire station yesterday said he could not explain what happened because he did not work Friday.

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