On a bright Sunday morning, Damian Languell was sleeping soundly at home in Wade, Maine, the US. The sound that woke him at 8:15 was so 1 that he assumed it came from inside his house. As he got up to 2 , he heard another sound, this one coming most definitely from 3 . Looking out of his bedroom window, he 4 a tree engulfed in smoke about 500 yards away. A car was wrapped around the tree's base, and its engine was 5 .
Seeing that, he immediately 6 buckets of water and ran to the crash site. Up close, the 7 looked worse. The car was 8 nearly in two, and the tree was where the driver's seat ought to have been, as if 9 there. He thought that no one should have survived this 10 , and yet there was 16-year-old Thompson, still 11 with his terrified face pressed against the driver's side window in visible 12 . Languell tried stopping the fire with his buckets of water with no success. When the 13 got into the front seats, he realized he had to get the boy out of there as soon as possible.
14 , Languell tried to open the back door, but he failed. He grabbed a stone beside the tree and 15 the back door. This time, it 16 and the back door was opened and Languell crawled in. Thompson was struggling to get free when Languell noticed how bad his legs were. Using a pocket knife, Languell sawed through Thompson's 17. Now that Thompson was free of restraints (束缚), Languell pulled him out of a rear window, and then 18 him to safety before the car was entirely surrounded by flames.
Then Languell called a (n) 19 as Thompson suffered severely. Thompson thanked Languell for saving him, regardless of his own safety. Soon, the doctors arrived and Languell felt 20.
