Figcoinc
12-17-2007, 03:45 PM
How many here at SRK would have let her burn? :rofl:
Link to story:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/transportation/699805,CST-NWS-save16.article
Sitting in her car after it broke down on the Eisenhower Expy. early Saturday, Roosevelt University student Khushboo Jani was oblivious to the flames licking the lower part of her car.
In fact, if Illinois Department of Transportation worker Demetrius Duplessis hadn't seen the flames, she might have continued talking on her cell phone as her 1996 Honda burned.
"She didn't even know," Duplessis, 44, a highway maintenance snowplow driver, said. "She was talking to her dad. She looked up at me, and before she could lock the door, I grabbed her."
Jani, 23, was driving eastbound when her car broke down. A few minutes after she pulled onto the shoulder near Sacramento Avenue, Duplessis, driving behind her, spotted the flames rising a few feet high from underneath her car.
Jani, meanwhile, was talking on her cell phone, concerned only with the fact that she was late for her physics final.
Duplessis sprang into action, jumped out of his car, and ran over to warn Jani, but actually scared her into trying to lock herself in.
"I got really scared, and I was like, 'I am not getting out of the car,'" said Jani, of Schaumburg.
And after he pulled her out, she still didn't grasp the severity of the situation.
"She tried to go back and grab her books," said Duplessis. "I had to go back and grab her again. She was like in a state of shock."
She was thinking only of her test, Jani said.
"He was like, 'Forget your test. Your car is on fire.' Everything happened really fast," she said.
"I would like to thank him."
But Duplessis, who previously worked as an emergency traffic controller where he was trained to react quickly, shrugged off her accolades.
Clearing snow, dumping salt and saving people from burning cars was all in a day's work, he said.
"I just did it," Duplessis said.
Link to story:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/transportation/699805,CST-NWS-save16.article
Sitting in her car after it broke down on the Eisenhower Expy. early Saturday, Roosevelt University student Khushboo Jani was oblivious to the flames licking the lower part of her car.
In fact, if Illinois Department of Transportation worker Demetrius Duplessis hadn't seen the flames, she might have continued talking on her cell phone as her 1996 Honda burned.
"She didn't even know," Duplessis, 44, a highway maintenance snowplow driver, said. "She was talking to her dad. She looked up at me, and before she could lock the door, I grabbed her."
Jani, 23, was driving eastbound when her car broke down. A few minutes after she pulled onto the shoulder near Sacramento Avenue, Duplessis, driving behind her, spotted the flames rising a few feet high from underneath her car.
Jani, meanwhile, was talking on her cell phone, concerned only with the fact that she was late for her physics final.
Duplessis sprang into action, jumped out of his car, and ran over to warn Jani, but actually scared her into trying to lock herself in.
"I got really scared, and I was like, 'I am not getting out of the car,'" said Jani, of Schaumburg.
And after he pulled her out, she still didn't grasp the severity of the situation.
"She tried to go back and grab her books," said Duplessis. "I had to go back and grab her again. She was like in a state of shock."
She was thinking only of her test, Jani said.
"He was like, 'Forget your test. Your car is on fire.' Everything happened really fast," she said.
"I would like to thank him."
But Duplessis, who previously worked as an emergency traffic controller where he was trained to react quickly, shrugged off her accolades.
Clearing snow, dumping salt and saving people from burning cars was all in a day's work, he said.
"I just did it," Duplessis said.