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On the recordMarch 11, 1994
This is something that many Americans are very well aware of this particular situation because Paul Harvey carried it on his news commentary. It has been an article that was written in the Reader's Digest. Dave Barry did a very good article about this. It has to do with a situation that occurred in Garden City, ID. There was a construction site and at this construction site a trench caved in and it buried one of the workers. Hearing muffled screams and cries, other workers that happened to be going by that were not affiliated with this construction site ran to see what the commotion was and found that this worker had been buried alive. You could only see about one inch of the back of his head. He was covered with debris and dirt. These workers that happened to be coming by immediately began to remove the debris and dirt around the trapped worker's head so he could breathe. The trench then began to fill with water. So they rerouted the water so that he would not drown until the emergency medical people could come with the appropriate tools that allowed them to extricate him from that trench. For their efforts these workers received from the mayor of that particular community a proclamation that declared them heroes. Indeed they were heroes for their quick thinking and their action. They saved this trapped worker's life.
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Dirk Kempthorne
Idaho

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Describing a heroic rescue of a worker trapped in a construction site accident in Garden City, ID.

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