A trucker's two extinguishers saved him. Now he saves others.

Reed Norwood was 16 when he fell asleep at the wheel on the interstate, driving home to Denver from a hunting trip in South Dakota so his dad could rest. The F-150 rolled about four and a half times and came to rest upside down in a farmer's field. Norwood was pinned, his neck broken and his arm crushed under the roof, as a fire started in the engine. His father squeezed out through an opening Norwood still cannot believe he fit through. Then an over-the-road trucker came down the hillside with two 20-pound fire extinguishers and held the flames back until a state trooper arrived. "Hey, there's still some left in this one. Hit it if it flares back up. I got to get going," the trucker told Norwood's dad, then walked calmly back to his rig. They never saw him again. Norwood is now in his 23rd year as a fire captain at West Metro Fire Rescue in Lakewood, Colorado.