Red Cross cites local heroes at breakfast
Published: September 10, 2005
Josh Sjolander and fellow worker Kyle Cornwell acted instinctively when they saw the smoke coming from a car at the side of the road in West Salem last May.
“We were coming back from lunch and we saw this car on fire, with the guy still inside,” he recalled recently. “He was unconscious, and pretty much pinned in the car.”
Sjolander and Cornwell stopped and were already working to get the man free as a police officer arrived.
They ignored the flames leaping four feet in the air.
“We didn’t think about ourselves,” he said. “We were just worried about the guy in the car.”
The efforts by the two construction workers landed them on the list of local heroes honored Thursday morning at a breakfast held by the Willamette Chapter of the American Red Cross.
Sjolander, 31, lives in Keizer, and Cornwell is from Silverton.Also honored at the event are Keizer residents Taylor Arnsmeier, 11, who saved her sister from choking; and Allen Doty, who saved a neighbor in a fire. Marion County Sheriff’s Deputies Jason Hickam and James Buchholz, who grew up in Keizer, were honored for their efforts in rousting residents as fire ripped through the Versailles Apartments in Salem.
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