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February 7th, 2008, 11:23 AM
Driving home at midnight, Josh sees smoke coming from a neighbor's house. He knows there are kids in there. Does he go home and call 911? Tell his parents? Say screw it and go to bed?
Nope... he goes in. Quotes from the story....
"It was like you walked into hell. I could feel the heat. It was so hot, I couldn't even open my eyes a lot of the time."
Hearn, who turns 19 on Valentine's Day, told his story reluctantly. Several times in the course of the interview, he insisted that he did nothing extraordinary. Plus, he had some help from his cell phone, too.
"I was going to call 911, but I looked down and my battery was dead," he said. "I knew there wasn't much time."
Many neighbors in the small subdivision weren't all that surprised by Hearn's actions. He's just that kind of guy, people said.
Hearn, who speaks calmly and comfortably like he's known you a while, was treated and released at Gateway for smoke inhalation. He got home about 5:30 a.m. and spent a lot of Wednesday coughing up black gunk and worrying about the kids.
"It's just one of those things that you want to think somebody would do the same thing for you," he said. "You hear kids crying, you can't just sit there and wait."
http://tinyurl.com/35xfqq
Nope... he goes in. Quotes from the story....
"It was like you walked into hell. I could feel the heat. It was so hot, I couldn't even open my eyes a lot of the time."
Hearn, who turns 19 on Valentine's Day, told his story reluctantly. Several times in the course of the interview, he insisted that he did nothing extraordinary. Plus, he had some help from his cell phone, too.
"I was going to call 911, but I looked down and my battery was dead," he said. "I knew there wasn't much time."
Many neighbors in the small subdivision weren't all that surprised by Hearn's actions. He's just that kind of guy, people said.
Hearn, who speaks calmly and comfortably like he's known you a while, was treated and released at Gateway for smoke inhalation. He got home about 5:30 a.m. and spent a lot of Wednesday coughing up black gunk and worrying about the kids.
"It's just one of those things that you want to think somebody would do the same thing for you," he said. "You hear kids crying, you can't just sit there and wait."
http://tinyurl.com/35xfqq