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Witness becomes rescuer in Austin plane crash
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(CNN) - Robin Dehaven usually replaces windows. On Thursday morning, after a small plane crashed into an Austin, Texas, office building, he was breaking them, having rushed into the burning structure to help people escape.
Dehaven, an Army veteran who works for a glass company, was driving to a job when he witnessed the plane crash. With the building in flames and emergency personnel still minutes away, Dehaven drove his truck to the parking lot.
People in the building were trapped, screaming for help.
"[Other people who'd gathered] said they needed my ladders on my truck, because there were people stuck on the second floor," Dehaven told CNN's "The Situation Room."
He took a ladder off his truck and put it up to a window of a smoke-filled area where five people were trapped.
"The people were kind of in a panic, wanting to get out quickly, of course, so I climbed up into the building with them," Dehaven said. He then broke a nearby window under which the ladder could have better footing, and he helped the five escape, he said. FULL STORY
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It's sad to see this man came to the point in his life where he couldn't take it anymore. My guess is there are thousands upon thousands of horror stories of people being hounded by the IRS who loose everything and reach the point where there seems no way out so they take thier own lives and the lives of others.
I'll bet if CNN asked others about thier stories with the IRS it would open up a floodgate of frightening tales that could make anyone crumble. Life is tough enough without a monkey on your back!