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On the evening of November 15, 2002, Alex McKay, 84, was in the side porch of his home in Lake Wales, Florida, when a gas explosion blew the roof off the house. A section of the roof blocked the porch, trapping McKay inside.
Mechanic Jimmie Acreman, who was working nearby, heard the explosion and ran to the scene. When he realized that McKay was trapped, he climbed onto the debris that was blocking the porch. Jumping through an opening to the porch floor, he extinguished the flames on McKay's ...