Two Long Island Rail Road employees are being hailed as heroes for putting their lives on the line to save a driver from a burning car.
Thick, heavy smoke billowed over the Long Island Expressway, jamming morning traffic for miles. Beneath it was smoldering soot from what was left of the burning vehicle.
"I was driving when we noticed the smoke," said Gerry Boertzel, Investigations Manager for Corporate Safety at LIRR.
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