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WACO, Texas — A former Waco firefighter was honored Monday, almost 45 years after he ran inside a burning home two times to save two small children, and for the first time since the blaze, he met the two, who are now both grown women.
In 1970 Ray Wells, who was then 26, left Waco Fire Station No. 9 and was on his way to Texas State Technical Institute after his shift when he saw black smoke billowing into the sky. “He just thought he’d check it out,” Waco assistant fire Chief D.C. Yeager said Monday.
What Wells found was a mobile home just off Old Steinbeck Bend Road that was engulfed in flames. Yeager said when Wells drove up to the burning home, he found a woman in the yard screaming that her children were still inside.
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