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Shaw awarded Lifesaver Award
Dylan Shaw, center, joined by his girlfriend, Alexis Robinson, to his left, and his parents, Kris and David Shaw, to his right, and two UPS representatives, names not available, holds the Lifesaver Award he received Thursday for helping rescue three people from a two-vehicle crash Aug. 5.
Havre native Dylan Shaw received a Lifesaver Award Thursday for pulling an unconscious woman out of a burning car.
Shaw, who left Havre in 2008 and has been working for UPS in Missoula, was driving his company truck on Montana Highway 200 near Dixon Aug. 5 when he came to a stop because two vehicles that had collided were blocking the road.
Shaw said he got out of his UPS truck to see if everyone was OK. There was an older couple in an F-150 and a lone woman in a Land Rover.
Shaw first helped the man in the pickup get his wife, who was injured, out of the car.
She was in the roughest shape, he said, adding that she was cut and had a shin bone popping out.
The woman in the Land Rover was unconscious and the engine bay was on fire.
Shaw said that by the time he and the other man were working on getting the woman out, oil was pouring on the ground, the fire had spread and flames were blazing on the driver-side door of the SUV.
Shaw said he went through the passenger side to unhook the woman's seat belt and then went over to the driver's side to help pull her out. He said the cabin was filled with smoke but flames had abated in that area just long enough to create an opening through which he pulled the unconscious woman out.
Shaw said for him, there was no time to think or be scared.
"I don't remember feeling the heat. I was kinda working on adrenaline," he said. "I was on autopilot."
Emergency vehicles arrived on the scene and Shaw got back in his truck and left. He said he was gone by the time the woman came to. He has still not met the woman, he said.
Jessica Scarce from UPS Communications said the Lifesaver Award is given out by their insurance company, Liberty Mutual, and that about 10 Lifesaver awards are awarded to UPS employees a year. She also added that the Land Rover was engulfed in flames shortly after the woman had been pulled out.
Shaw also was awarded a day off and a celebration with his co-workers.
He said he was notified that he will also be receiving a Samaritan Award from Montana Highway Patrol.
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