Nicholas Claudel helped to save Mark E. Tuttle from burning, Belgrade, Maine, January 2, 2019. Tuttle, 54, was inside a burning tanker truck filled with nearly 10,000 gallons of home heating fuel after a highway accident. The tanker, which ruptured and spilled fuel, came to rest on its passenger side. Claudel, 29, mail carrier, was working at the post office across the road and saw the tanker truck in flames. Fuel spilled on the road also caught fire. Another man ran up to the cab and Claudel followed. The cab’s windshield was broken, and a disoriented Tuttle was inside. The truck’s hood had been torn off and the engine was in flames. Aided by Claudel and the man, Tuttle was removed from the vehicle through the windshield, and helped away from the truck as flames spread to the cab. Fifty-foot-high flames shortly issued from the top of the tanker and thick, black smoke filled the sky. Tuttle sustained a shoulder injury and contusions to his body; he was not burned. Claudel was not injured 90273-10153
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