| Mysterious Stranger by Valerie Misch On October 2, 1995, my husband, Bobby, was at work, contemplating his 46th birthday the next day. He'd just come out of an office, after servicing the copy machine, when he saw a man, speaking Spanish, frantically yelling and pointing down the street. Bobby got in his car, and drove in the direction the man pointed. When he saw what had happened, he called 911 on his cell phone. Apparently 2 trucks got to an intersection at the same time, neither seeing a stop sign, and ran into each other...Then they continued across the street, coming to a stop over a drainage ditch. Bobby parked his car, and ran to the trucks. One of them had a camper shell on the back. He saw the driver of that truck was unconscious, ran around to check the camper, to make sure there wasn't anyone in there, and then went to the other truck...as he opened the passenger door, a woman ran out of the truck, her knees bleeding badly...She ran to safety across the street. Then he went to the driver's door of the camper truck, to get the driver out. When he opened the door, he could see that the cab was on fire, and it was getting closer and closer to the man inside. He reached in, and tried to lift the man out of the truck, with no luck...The man's seat belt was on, and Bobby couldn't hold on to the man and release his seat belt at the same time. A crowd had gathered across the street, and Bobby yelled for someone to help him, but no one came. The flames were getting dangerously close to Bobby and the man, when suddenly, from nowhere, came a 'young guy', who helped Bobby get the man out of the truck. Then the 'young guy' disappeared. He's never been heard from since.... About 10 seconds after they got the man out of the truck, as Bobby was pulling him away, the truck exploded...the man had just had 2 propane tanks filled before the accident, and the explosion sent the camper shell flying into the air!! The truck was engulfed in flames...if not for Bobby, the man surely would have died, and if not for that mysterious 'young guy', they both would have been killed. I'm convinced that young man was Bobby's guardian angel... A few months later, at an awards ceremony, Bobby and Earl, the man in the truck, met. It was a very emotional moment, to say the least. Bobby's received a few awards, from the Fire Dept ,Highway Patrol, and the a retired firefighters assn. But he's never forgotten that mysterious young man, who most definitely saved his life... |
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