( – promoted by jvwalt)
Today a woman with severe mental illness died tragically by lighting herself on fire at a convenience store gas pump.
Kasey Morgan, the store manager, immediately shut off the pump and ran to the scene where she tried to save the woman’s life with a hand-held fire extinguisher. Two customers tried, too.
Ms Morgan’s actions exemplify the quick thinking and raw courage that is needed in a crisis. The woman in flames was beyond saving, but her rescuers could not know this, and without prompt action, this grisly situation could have ended in an explosion, with additional lives lost.
Kasey and companions, our thoughts are with you tonight
This happened just a few miles from home. I often stop there for gas with the little ones in the car. Read the story and saw some of the aftermath photos in the Feeploid this morning.
Sad and Crazy. Can’t imagine being Kasey or a patron of the store.
It wasn’t clear if the deceased had a history of mental illness. Not sure where that information came from. I know they quoted a few folks from Prevention / Intervention centers, but ‘more to come’ as information develops was the tone in the Freeps.
How terrible for the victim and everyone else involved.