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Trucker saves lives in services blaze
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A RECOVERY driver has been hailed a hero for rescuing seven sleeping truckers when a fire broke out at a motorway service area in Staffordshire.
Steve Collins, who works for Stoke-on-Trent-based Jon Beech Recovery, was recovering a broken down vehicle from Keele Services on the M6 at around 11.30pm on 15 December when he saw flames coming from a truck in the car park He smashed the cab window and dragged the driver to safety before alerting other drivers in surrounding vehicles to the blaze.
Collins says: "I looked over and saw the truck in flames by the fuel pump. I just wanted to wake the drivers up and get them to safety. One of the trucks had gas bottles on hoard so I needed to get his truck out of the way before the flames engulfed it, 1 managed to wake him up and get him to drive his vehicle to the other end of the car park.
"I then heard an explosion, which sent flames down the car park. I got a lire extinguisher out of another vehicle and put some of the flames out before helping the other drivers to escape. The drivers didn't have a clue what was going on,he adds.
Sub officer Paul Bragg from Staffordshire Fire Service says Collins' actions probably contributed to saving a number of lives.