By Joe Napsha
Tribune-Review
BELLE VERNON, Pa. — Several Belle Vernon residents are being called heroes for pulling a man from his smoke-filled vehicle Sunday afternoon, moments before it exploded into a fireball that extensively damaged a house.
“These guys were heroes by any assessment. Three neighbors pulled him (the driver) out of the car and hosed him down right before five gas cans exploded,” said John Hartman, chief of the Southwest Regional Police Department in Belle Vernon.
A group of residents in the Seldom Seen neighborhood of Belle Vernon used garden houses and several fire extinguishers to suppress the fire so that they could pull George J. Ozanick, 28, of Royal Road, Smock, from his sport utility vehicle after it hit the shed at 43 Sampson St., Hartman said.
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