Raymond M. Ast saved Gordon W. and Joyce C. Stockhill from burning, Jennings, Florida, February 2, 1994. Stockhill, 64, was driving a pickup truck with a 26-foot trailer in tow on an interstate highway. With him was his wife, 60. In an accident, the vehicles left the highway and overturned onto their passenger sides. Fire broke out on the underside of the truck, near to both its fuel tank and three full propane tanks carried by the vehicles. Traveling behind the Stockhills, Ast, 45, truck driver, witnessed the accident. He ran to the burning truck and, after attempting to break its windshield, climbed atop the driver’s side. He reached through the window of the driver’s door, grasped Stockhill by the arms, and pulled him out of the truck. As flames spread, Ast reached into the truck again, grasped Mrs. Stockhill, and pulled her out. Returning to the ground, Ast and the Stockhills moved away from the vehicles, which were shortly engulfed in flames and were destroyed. Stockhill and his wife sustained injury in the accident, Mrs. Stockhill requiring hospital treatment.
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