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True stories from the split second a bystander becomes the actor.
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A car struck a tree on a mountain highway. The fire was already starting.
He held the man down until police arrived.
There was no operating room and no time to find one.
He paid for the choice with his life.
He pulled two of them. Then a stranger told him a third child was still underneath.
For ten seconds, the plane vanished from his screen.
