Joseph Paul Eshman helped to rescue Trena L. Fox from burning, Shelbyville, Indiana, April 21, 1982. Following a highway accident, Mrs. Fox, 20, lay injured and semi-conscious on the floor of her car. Flames erupted under its hood and spread to the grass beneath the car. Eshman, 33, truck driver, ran to the car as another man was leaning inside and pulling Mrs. Fox to the driver’s door. Despite flames feeding inside the car, Eshman grasped the driver’s door, which had been jammed shut, and pulled, causing it to swing free of the wreckage. He and the other man then reached inside and removed Mrs. Fox moments before an explosion under the hood caused flames to engulf the car’s interior. Mrs. Fox was hospitalized for a concussion, burns, and cuts. She recovered.
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