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After a family evacuated their home in Columbus, Ga., during a fire, family patriarch Walter Serpit grabbed his cane and headed back. “I went back into the house like a dummy,” he said. He almost didn’t make it back out, since “the door shut on me because this back draft was about to kill me.” He had “no choice” but go in, he says — “myself, being an alcoholic, I was trying to get my beer out.” He managed to rescue several cans and make it back outside without injury. (RC/Atlanta Journal-Constitution) ...Not so dumb: he knew that was the fastest way to reload his fire-fighting apparatus.Original Publication Date: 03 November 2013
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 20.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 20.
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