Victoria Advocate
YORKTOWN, Texas — Brian Smolik is ready to return to work — sitting around has never been easy.
That work ethic is what sent him to work with the National Guard and later to the Yorktown Volunteer Fire Department. However, he’s been unable to do much of anything since being stabbed. Smolik was at home spending time with his wife and 16-month-old daughter last week when his pager went off, notifying him of a truck fire in the 400 block of West Sixth Street.
When he arrived, a man burning brush, a couch and a city-issued trash bin in front of his home appeared to be trying to stop firefighters from putting out the blaze. “I thought he had punched me in the stomach,” Smolik recalled about the man, Kirk Engle, 35, lunging at him. It wasn’t until he looked at his hands, which were covered in blood, that he knew Engle had stabbed him.
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