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32-year-old Matthew Chew Jriyasetapong was headed south on Jefferson Boulevard in a pickup truck at about 9:00 a.m., when he for some reason slowly veered into the oncoming lane and collided with a northbound semi-truck. The crash sent Jriyasetapong's mangled pickup truck into a roadside canal. It was then that volunteer fireman Dave Welch happened to see the wrecked vehicle in the water as he drove by. He quickly got out to assist Jriyasetapong, who was trapped in the vehicle, and prevented him from drowning until repsonders could free him.