{"id":38092,"date":"2013-10-22T15:23:26","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T19:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38092"},"modified":"2013-10-22T16:18:56","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T20:18:56","slug":"af-veteran-alex-mitchell-saving-the-world-one-person-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38092","title":{"rendered":"AF veteran Alex Mitchell; saving the world one person at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Tango sends us<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/new-york\/queens\/truck-driver-saves-motorist-car-fire-back-work-article-1.1490180\"> this short story<\/a> about former airman Alex Mitchell who was out driving his fuel truck on the Long Island Expressway on Friday night when he saw a drunk driver careen off of the roadway in his Chevy truck. Mitchell saw the truck burst into flames and the driver trapped under the vehicle. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Smoke and flames were consuming the wrecked auto when Mitchell spotted the driver trapped underneath it, and pulled him with one hand to safety.<\/p>\n<p>After giving a quick statement to cops, Mitchell hopped back into his rig and finished his overnight shift \u2014 not arriving home until 3 p.m. \u201cBusiness as usual,\u201d a grinning Mitchell told the Daily News, noting that he saw the accident not long after his shift began. \u201cI still had another 12 hours.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The video below the jump autostarts.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.newsinc.com\/Single\/iframe.html?WID=1&#038;VID=25270667&#038;freewheel=69016&#038;sitesection=nydailynews&#038;width=500&#038;height=300\" height=\"300\" width=\"500\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Tango sends us this short story about former airman Alex Mitchell who was out driving &hellip; <a title=\"AF veteran Alex Mitchell; saving the world one person at a time\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38092\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AF veteran Alex Mitchell; saving the world one person at a time<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}