Tomei, 52, an engineer and accordion instructor, had no idea what a great danger he would _49___. With a garden hose (软管),he spent the _50__ few hours putting out small spot fires.
Then the _51__ picked up, and the fire began moving slowly from the valley 60 feet below toward his home. He attempted to put out the fire but without any _52_. The fire and smoke blew up beside him, _53___ him to the ground, where he got hold of a tree. “I couldn’t breathe. I couldn’t see. I just stuck my face in the dirt.”
_54___, the wind changed. Against a frightening background of house burning up and down his street, Tomei
fought through much of the _55__ without any more water and _56__ a couple of tools he could get to keep small fires away from his neighbors’ house.
At sunrise he got his first real look at what had left of the neighborhood. “I saw all those damaged house and
thought, oh, my God,” _57__ he’d saved his home along with two others’.
When his neighbor Nancy Tenbrink _58__ to the house that she’d thought was lost, she _59__threw her arms
around Tomei. “My house was important, but his life was much more _60__,” she says. “I’m deeply thankful for what he did for us.”
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