A lineman at Coastal Electric Cooperative has been recognized by a state cooperative association for saving the life of a firefighter injured during a tree-removal operation.Adam Jarrard received a Life Saving Award from Georgia Electric Membership Corp. on Nov. 10 during the state trade-association annual meeting in Savannah.Following a thunderstorm Aug. 9, Jarrard was called to a back road in Bryan County where a large tree had fallen across the road onto a cable line, pinning it to the ground. A firefighter already was in the process of cutting the trunk, which had broken off and was lying in the road. Jarrard asked the firefighter not to cut the tree resting on the wire and drove down the road to turn around.