Charles N. Shelley helped to save William H. Homan from burning, Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, October 15, 1981. When his tractor-trailer and another rig collided on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, Homan lay with a broken hip in his cab, which lay near the truck’s burning chassis. As flames on the rig’s leaking fuel tanks grew, Shelley, 46, truck driver, ran to the cab and, reaching through the broken windshield, helped another truck driver pull Homan clear of the wreckage. Shelley and the other man carried Homan to safety shortly before the fuel tanks exploded. Homan recovered from the broken hip and a serious head injury
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