Gary Allan Olson helped to rescue Robert C. Erickson from burning, Williams, Minnesota, May 9, 1979. When his tractor-trailer was involved in an accident and the cab caught fire, Erickson, 27, was injured and, unconscious, was pinned at the steering wheel. Olson, 27, truckdriver, and another man, unable to pull Erickson free, entered the burning cab. With the fire. increasing, Olson and the other man freed Erickson and removed him from the cab shortly before it was engulfed by flames. Olson’s burns were minor but Erickson required hospitalization.
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