WILMINGTON, Ohio — Rosemary Russell didn't hear the explosion that could have killed her. But she'll never forget the sound of her friend's scream.

"I said, 'Are you all ri—' and that's all I got out, and the ceiling came down on top of me," Russell said.

In an instant, Russell said she found herself pinned under debris in a burning house on East Locust Street in Wilmington, flames surrounding her as gas-fueled fire consumed everything in sight.

"I just was like a deer in headlights. I could move. I couldn't think of anything. All I could see is this fire all around me, and I didn't know what was going to happen," Russell said.

What happened next would save her life and leave her forever grateful to the man who pulled her from the wreckage.

"And then all of a sudden I felt somebody pu

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