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Downtown passersby were aghast as they watched a man wave goodbye to the woman with one leg dangling out of the second-floor window.
“Do something! She’ll fall.”
Instead of responding to an emergency, the man in the baseball cap smiled. “No, she can’t fall. You see she’s…”
Sirens approaching from the east told the gathering crowd that someone had called 911.
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“You’re going to be fine. Just hang in there. We’ve got heavy equipment coming. We’ll have the two of you out of there in an hour.”
“What?”
Ben Howard was on his knees. How did he get here? Wait. The earthquake. The little girl was going to be killed. Somehow he managed to push her in a hollow space as tons of concrete and steel rained down around them. What was that about heavy equipment?
“Can you hear me?”
Ben opened his eyes, not realizing they’d been closed. There was an opening in the rubble just in front of him. A firefighter. That’s who was talking to him.
The girl! He looked down. She was unconscious but breathing, thank God. Oh no.
“She’s not going to make it. Damn it! I didn’t push her all the way clear. An artery got nicked. She’ll bleed out. You’ve got to do something.”
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