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On the morning of March 12, a violent, head-on automobile crash in West Manhelm Township, Pennsylvania, trapped three people in a burning car. A large number of individuals arrived at the scene before professional rescue crews arrived, and immediately set out to help the victims.
The flaming vehicle was driven by 68-year-old Christopher DeVier. His close friend, 66-year-old Sandra Crouse, was the front-seat passenger, and his grand daughter, eight-year-old Amber Grider, sat in the rear seat.
Two of the first people to come across the accident scene were off-duty Baltimore City Police Officer Stephen Sistek and his wife, Barbara. After one man broke the passenger seat window with a crowbar, Sistek used a pocket knife to cut the seat belt holding Crouse. Others had already rescued young Amber from the rear passenger seat.
Suddenly, the trapped Mr. DeVier screamed that fire from the car's engine had started burning his legs. To save DeVier, others who had come to help formed a bucket brigade to douse the flames. In an interview in the Hanover Evening Sun, Mrs. Sistek recalled: "One man threw a jacket saturated with ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Many "guardian angels".(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)