James David Richardson helped to save Morris A. Neeley, Gregory W. Dickens, and Anthony W. Lamb from suffocation, Winona, Texas, May 29, 1985. After Lamb, 24, was rendered unconscious while working in a sewer, Neeley, 49, entered the sewer to save him and was also overcome, as was Gregory, 16, who had entered after Neeley. Richardson, 20, chemical company laborer, was alerted and went to the scene. A rope tied around his chest and held by his foreman at ground level, Richardson entered the sewer’s manhole and descended on a ladder that extended to the bottom of the shaft in which the three victims lay. He tied a rope around Neeley and returned to ground level, where he and the foreman pulled Neeley out. Twice more Richardson entered the shaft, and in a similar fashion Gregory and Lamb were removed. Neeley and Gregory recovered after hospitalization, but Lamb died. 60420-7022
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