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Good Samaritan Pulls Trucker from Burning Wreckage Three Days After Giving Birth
Breitbart ^ | 21 Feb 2020 | NATE CHURCH

Posted on 02/22/2020 2:21:10 PM PST by Hojczyk

Three people worked together to rescue a truck driver after a massive cargo explosion in Indianapolis on Thursday — and one of them had just given birth.

“We see a plume of smoke, huge smoke, it looked like a warehouse was on fire,” Holly McNally told Fox 59. “I slowed down, and I saw the actual semi on fire, and I look to the front of the semi and I see a man on fire,” McNally said. But while most people at the scene were content to record the agonizing death of an immolated stranger, McNally refused to join the rubber-necking.

“I’m scanning, and people are video taping and watching, but no one was going over there. So I told my mom ‘I’m stopping, I’m going over there.'” As another stranger tried to put Jeffrey “Duke” Denman out, McNally joined in. The danger, however, was far from over. “We got him out, and we start to walk away, and I see this huge stream of liquid, and I could smell it,” McNally said. “I said ‘Jeff… what were you hauling?’ And he said, ‘jet fuel.'”

Time was running out, and every passing moment brought Denman’s would-be rescuers and their charge ever closer to being swallowed by the inevitable blast. “We’re trying to carry him down and it’s getting closer and closer and the second explosion went off,” McNally said. “Smoke was hitting us and I was just praying like ‘God, please let us get out of here so I can see my baby.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: indianapolis; jetfuel; localnews; wreck
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1 posted on 02/22/2020 2:21:10 PM PST by Hojczyk
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2 posted on 02/22/2020 2:22:54 PM PST by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

Thanks for sharing. Like the heorine said, “What if we all did that?” just jumped in and helped, instead of pulling out our phones and recording it?


3 posted on 02/22/2020 2:38:06 PM PST by blu (Bagster-s ping on the side)
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To: Hojczyk

Wow! I’m so sick of people just standing around videoing horrible accidents and disasters and doing NOTHING to help. God bless this woman and the man who helped her.


4 posted on 02/22/2020 2:49:00 PM PST by livius
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A 59 year old woman just gave birth?


5 posted on 02/22/2020 2:53:13 PM PST by Twotone (While one may vote oneself into socialism one has to shoot oneself out of it.)
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To: Hojczyk

Never mind. My eye caught the 59 & I thought it was the woman’s age. It was Fox 59. Sheesh!


6 posted on 02/22/2020 2:53:59 PM PST by Twotone (While one may vote oneself into socialism one has to shoot oneself out of it.)
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Bookmark


7 posted on 02/22/2020 3:00:15 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Twotone

Yes. She was going home. She had to leave baby in hospital. She and man with her stopped to help.


8 posted on 02/22/2020 3:13:38 PM PST by ncpatriot
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To: Twotone

Honestly, speed reading through that, I thought the same for a second..that she was 59 but then I slowed down and re-read.


9 posted on 02/22/2020 3:16:47 PM PST by acapesket (all happy now?)
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To: Hojczyk

thanks for the uplifting post


10 posted on 02/22/2020 3:32:09 PM PST by hondact200 (Lincoln Freed the Slaves. Obama Enslaves the Free. Trump 2020 - Keep America Great)
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To: Hojczyk

I motion to make her our first real Navy SEAL. That’s going to be some boy!


11 posted on 02/22/2020 3:55:59 PM PST by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: Hojczyk

A trucker and his/her baby were stuck in “burning wreckage” for three days?


12 posted on 02/22/2020 3:59:58 PM PST by skimbell
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To: livius; Gamecock
"..Wow! I’m so sick of people just standing around videoing horrible accidents and disasters and doing NOTHING to help.."

Yeah, I know. Sounds kinda like a Seinfeld... Oh, wait.. d;^)

13 posted on 02/22/2020 4:06:02 PM PST by CopperTop (Outside the wire it's just us chickens. Dig?)
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To: Hojczyk

The headline is misleading. The driver got out of the truck by himself and was running down the road on fire according to local media reports.


14 posted on 02/22/2020 4:11:12 PM PST by Retired Chemist
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“...I’m scanning, and people are video taping and watching, but no one was going over there..."

That is utterly shameful and completely disgusting.

15 posted on 02/22/2020 4:17:13 PM PST by rlmorel (Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both.)
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To: ncpatriot; Twotone

In addition to the news channel being 59, the man she helped to save was age 59. What were the odds?


16 posted on 02/22/2020 4:38:16 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: Hojczyk

This woman is a hero in every way.


17 posted on 02/22/2020 4:39:22 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: blu

It just sickens me that people are so callous that they will film someone burning to death rather than trying to help.

It’s enough to make me hope someone returns them the favor when they need help.


18 posted on 02/22/2020 5:08:12 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: metmom

Ah, but the heroic Holly McNally. Why did the phrase “image and likeness of God” pop into my mind?


19 posted on 02/22/2020 5:18:43 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good." - Romans 12:9)
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To: Retired Chemist

Great story. Stupid headline. Just awful writing. Journalism is dead. Blessings on the young mother. I hope the truck driver is ok. (No word on that.)


20 posted on 02/22/2020 5:54:36 PM PST by TrueFact (Don't hang out with narcissists or dems...but I repeat myself.)
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