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Jon On April 3, 2005, Jon awoke in the middle of the night, surrounded by smoke. To survive, he had to get out of the house, and the only way was up two flights of stairs through the fire. Wearing only a pair of boxers, he ran upstairs and through the pitch-black house, running through billows of smoke and intense heat that reached temperatures of 1,000 degrees. He would later learn from firefighters that appliances and cooking utensils had melted, and that the food had cooked inside the refrigerator, although all he could see and smell at the time was smoke. Read More... Richard Twelve-year-old Richard learned the hard way that one error in judgment is all it takes to turn a life upside down. After snowmobiling all day with a friend, the Lincoln, Mo., boy went to his father's shop to warm up by the wood-burning stove. His mistake was stoking the fire with diesel fuel. The fire exploded. Richard rolled in the snow to put out the flames, but 45 percent of his body was already burned. Read More... |
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