Joseph J. Szimanski helped to save Carolyn H. McPhail from burning, Oshawa, Ontario, November 4, 1979. The automobile in which Mrs. McPhail, 34, was riding was struck by another vehicle and caught fire, the flames spreading over the exterior and the interior. Szimanski, 27, spot welder, ran to the vehicle and had begun to reach through a window opening when an explosion under the hood forced him back. Returning, he grasped Mrs. McPhail and, with the aid of another man, pulled her to safety before the vehicle was completely engulfed by flames. 57159-6559
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