17:43 minutes (5.07 MB)
Back in the 1980’s, Catherine Ryan Hyde was driving alone at night in a rough area of downtown Los Angeles. Her aging Datsun 1200 stalled at the head of a freeway ramp and then the passenger compartment started to fill with smoke. She was forced to step out of her car in that dangerous neighborhood and immediately saw two men running at her, one carrying an open blanket he’d pulled from the trunk of his car. Catherine thought to herself, “I’m dead.” Then the two men ran right past her, pulled open the hood of her car and smothered the flames with the blanket. The fire department arrived quickly, called by another motorist. When the emergency was under control, Catherine went to thank those two men, but they were gone.
