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JOHNSON COUNTY, Ind. — It was a call too close to home for an off-duty firefighter. Thursday evening, Paul Blanford heard a noise while he was a giving his kids a bath.
“It was pretty loud so I got up to look and see what it was and that’s when the whole front of the house was kind of orange looking,” said Paul Blanford, a Decatur Township firefighter. A semi truck crashed right down the road from Blanford’s Johnson County home. Cell phone video captured the fire. The flames and smoke were too powerful to even make out what exactly was burning. Blanford ran right to it.
“As soon as I came around the corner I started yelling at him to get away from the truck and that’s when I realized he wasn’t all there because he was trying to go towards the truck. He was really close to it already,” said Blanford.
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