Firefighter honored for 65-year run with volunteer company
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October 27, 2016
PLUMSTEADVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Despite the excruciating pain, the farmer knew his screaming for help would yield nothing.
The corn harvester that had ensnared J. Earle Yerkes's left hand was in one of the far fields of his Durham Road dairy farm — about a mile from his house and his wife, Arlene.
But suddenly, she appeared.
It was a phone call about a fire that sent her out to find her husband — who even then, in 1978, was a longtime member of the Plumsteadville Fire Co.
She managed to untangle him from the machine and drove him to the hospital.
Yerkes lost the hand but knew how lucky he was to ke...
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