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[email protected]. We’ll follow up with you to obtain news clippings, photos or other information. Honoring heroic carriers eroism, like the mail, comes in from the vehicle as possible. They asked many packages—think of police the man if there was anyone else in the Hofficers or firefighters. But for vehicle, and he said there was not. some citizens in need of assistance, their Roberts said that as a Marine, “We’re heroes come in the form of concerned trained to run toward the danger, not letter carriers. away from it.” Letter carriers are members of nearly Emergency responders soon arrived every community in this nation and and put out the fire, which they sus- know when something is wrong. Spot- pected had started from a mechanical ting fires and injuries, they often are the malfunction. The driver suffered some first to respond. The following stories smoke inhalation but otherwise was not document their heroism. For them, deliv- injured. “The car burned down to basi- ering for America is all in a day’s work. cally ashes,” Roberts said. Despite praise for his heroics, the CCA Carrier not deterred by insisted he is just a concerned citizen. “I flaming car feel like anybody would have done it,” Roberts said. Rapid City, SD Branch 1225 member Kene Roberts was driving home from work one day in November just a few weeks after beginning as a city carrier assistant when he saw an alarming sight on the highway: a car traveling in the opposite direction with its bottom on fire in the engine and axle area.