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RAMOS, from page 1___________ U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Nathan Byrnes maybe 30 minutes and we spent another
20 minutes waiting for CHP to arrive. It
was behind a big rig and I saw a car slow- Senior Airman Edward Ramos, United States Air Force Weapons School command section was an intense situation that was handled
ing down and what I thought was a dust administrator, poses in front of the USAFWS building at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., April with the upmost care by everyone in-
cloud was in fact the small sedan flying 4. Ramos assisted four passengers who were in a car wreck on March 25. volved. I couldn’t be happier that no one
in the air toward the barrier on the left was seriously injured.”
shoulder of the freeway. jump through,” said Ramos. “Once I was him and to wait for (California Highway
in the car, I unbuckled both seatbelts of Patrol) and ambulances to arrive.” Once the situation was over Ramos
“The back rear tire had blown out and the passengers. One of them was okay to called to let his supervisor know what
caused the accident. The car, thankfully, move, so I told him that he would have to Ramos and the others took it upon had happened and his reaction was un-
stayed upright and on the southbound crawl out the sunroof, and I would help themselves to try and get the door open expected.
side of traffic. If it had gone over the bar- him down. before ambulances or firefighters showed
rier onto the northbound side of traffic, up so that they could get him out faster “I was at dinner when I received the
the passengers may not have walked away “When only one passenger was left once they arrived. call and I just said ‘see you on Monday,’
alive from it.” in the car, an off-duty fireman came to stated Staff Sgt. Richard Garcia, USAFWS
the side of the door and asked me what “To pry open the back passenger door, NCO in charge of the command section.
Ramos, without hesitation, jumped injuries the guy had. The passenger let me the tow-truck guy grabbed a 4-foot medal “I wasn’t shocked; it was nothing short of
out of his car and raced to assist the four know that his arm was banged up and his rod from his truck, and we proceeded to what I expect of him. He does exceptional
passengers that were still buckled in the lower back hurt. At that moment, the off- get the door open. We finally got the door things at work already and doing things
damaged car. A bystander in a tow truck duty fireman informed me not to touch off before the County Fire Department that we don’t expect of him. It didn’t sur-
grabbed his fire extinguisher and put out showed up. The whole situation took prise me because that is the type of person
the smoke that was coming from the car he is and I’m really proud of him.”
while Ramos began to assess the scene
and help the passengers. Garcia stated that even though Ramos
didn’t have to use the training that the Air
“The two passengers in the front had Force provides like Self-Aid Buddy Care
minor scratches; I was still able to get in this particular situation it still played
them out in no time,” said Ramos. “As a role, as the training one receives in the
for the other two passengers in the back, Air Force instills that initiative to jump
it was much harder to get them out be- in and help.
cause both doors were smashed in, and I
was unable to pry the doors open myself.” When Ramos was faced with this
situation he could have just drove on by
Ramos began to look over the car to see and continued on his way home. Instead,
if there was another entry point to reach he put the well-being of others ahead of
the passengers that were still inside. himself and became a real-life hero to
those four passengers that night.
“I noticed that the sunroof in the car
was completely broken, so I knew I could
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