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Chicago Gainer, 15, pulled from burning truck by strangers and saved after car accident in Myakka City, Florida

Date: 
Monday, April 6, 2015
Area: 
Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL

A truck that had been driving on State Road 70 struck a tree and caught fire, with two people inside. The driver, Wilfred Calvin Jones, 55, was not able to escape and died at the scene. 15-year-old Chicago Gainer was in the passenger seat, trapped in the vehicle. Passersby Levi Teuton, 35, and Doug Dewell stopped and helped to extinguish the flames. They were able to free Gainer, saving his life, before propane tanks in the truck exploded. Gainer was taken to a hospital in serious condition.

Yoel Menendez, 44, Ricoberto Llanes, 43, and Alain Navarro, 46, killed and eight injured in multi-vehicle collision with bear north of Interstate 75 on the Big Cypress Seminole Reservation in Florida Everglades

Date: 
Sunday, December 7, 2014
Area: 
Ft. Myers-Naples, FL
A vehicle hit and killed a black bear on a two-lane roadway north of Interstate 75 on the Big Cypress Seminole Reservation in the Florida Everglades, and three people who had gone to the driver's aid were then struck and killed by another vehicle. When the first car, a Cadillac Escalade, collided with the animal, a second vehicle pulled over at the scene, and then a Mercedes crashed into the people who stopped to help. Some of the injured were transported by air from the remote crash site. The bear died. Four critically injured patients were airlifted to a hospital in Fort Lauderdale.

Yoel Menendez, 44, Ricoberto Llanes, 43, and Alain Navarro, 46, dead after trying to assist woman after crash involving bear in Miami, Florida

Date: 
Sunday, December 7, 2014
Area: 
Miami-Fort Lauderdale, FL

Caroline Billie was driving on Snake Road when she saw a bear in the road and couldn't stop in time to prevent hitting it. Her vehicle was seriously damaged and no longer driveable, and the bear was killed. Three vehicles that were traveling together on the road saw that she needed help and pulled over. Eight people got out of the vehicles. At the same time, Gary McInturff was driving in the opposite direction and did not see the parked vehicles. He hit one and sideswiped anoter, sending it into the people standing on the shoulder. The road was reportedly very dark at the time.