Keith Camp helped to rescue Raymond A. Pittsley from burning, Freetown, Massachusetts, August 16, 2004. Pittsley, 80, was the driver of a dump truck that, in a highway accident, overturned onto its driver’s side in the grassy median of a highway. Fuel leaked onto the grass. Other motorists, including Camp, 42, truck driver, stopped at the scene and approached the dump truck. Pittsley appeared unconscious. The men reached through the windshield and were struggling to pull Pittsley out when fire erupted suddenly at the truck and repelled them. After leaving to obtain a fire extinguisher, Camp returned to the truck. One of the other men had pulled Pittsley from the cab and laid him on the ground. Camp and that man dragged Pittsley to the highway. Injured and burned, Pittsley was hospitalized but succumbed nine days later. Camp recovered from a minor burn to a leg.
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