SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. – In the fall of 2023, Warren Staves witnessed a life-changing event during a 3:00 a.m. drive. He saw a man shouting for help and sprang into action.
“So I stopped, I pulled over, and, he is yelling fire! Fire! I see the lady up on the second floor screaming, help! Help! And I looked at him. I’m like, go get her and he he was like, questioning himself. Like what? So I, I ran around the corner,” Staves said.
In a heroic act, Staves risked his life to save a stranger.
“The door was closed, so I hit it with my shoulder and I had to hit it a couple of times. There’s a water pipe that goes across the top and it came down and just knocked me in the mouth and knocked all my teeth out, and I was pretty bloody,” he said.
Despite the injuries, Staves managed to save the wom