At 4:03am the Rescue assignment was dispatched for Cobbs Creek & Chestnut, Squrt-57 arrived to find an auto into a tree with the engine compartment fully involved, extension into the Dash and front, also reporting they had 2 males heavily pinned. Squirt-57 went into fire extinguishment while Ladder-24, Squad-47, & Rescue-1 all went into svc with the tools. Medics-3 & 23 stabilized the patients while the extrication was ongoing. The extrication took approx 60 minutes. The 2 victims, a 25 yr old male driver with multi trauma, unconscious in respiratory distress, and a 48 yr old male passenger with an open femur fracture, pelvic fracture, multi trauma, burns to his lower extremities were transported to H.U.P. The car was alledgedley racing another car when it hit a light pole then tree. The light pole came down on the other car involved in the race, the driver of the second car fled the scene.