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In every community, there are a handful of people who, when faced with a crisis, react in extraordinary ways. Through ingenious efforts, death-defying deeds, or even reckless acts of self-sacrifice, they save their fellow citizens—or even...

May 16, 2018 Carl Wyndham


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