Heart-stopping moment utility worker desperately tries to save colleague as he clings to burning cherry picker [Video]

Dramatic footage shows the moment a Missouri power utility worker scrambles to save his coworker who is stuck near a burning electric pole. 

The power lineman can be seen trapped between the flames and a bucket truck in a YouTube video shared by David Patton, a war veteran and gamer. 

The worker screams for help while kicking his feet in the air as a child can be heard asking, ‘Can he get down?’

Fortunately for the lineman, seconds later one of his colleagues approaches in his own cherry picker to bring him to safety. 

The other lineman slowly moves towards the top of the fire to pull the victim out but soon realizes that it may be difficult to save him from a high angle. 

He can then be seen changing his strategy and going under the desperate lineman’s bucket …