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Exclusive: Couple Saved From Burning Car, Tefillin Miraculously Spared

Exclusive: Couple Saved From Burning Car, Tefillin Miraculously Spared

Yitzy Fried

A couple traveling from Monsey to Westchester Medical Center on Sunday is grateful to be safe and sound following a harrowing incident in the center of the roadway.

The driver of the vehicle related the events to Rockland Daily after his wife gave birth at Westchester. “We were rushing into the hospital, and I had just gotten off the Tappan Zee Bridge when I hit a deer head-on. We were in the center lane, with cars driving from both sides, when my wife noticed smoke coming out of the front of the hood.

“Left with no choice, we got out of the car and rushed to the side of the road—watching as the car rolled another few hundred feet until it came to a stop. I called 911, and soon, fire, police, and EMS were on the scene.”

Fire crews quickly set about extinguishing the blaze into which the car had by now become engulfed, and the couple was transported by ambulance to their original destination—where a healthy baby was soon born.

When the mechanic picked up the car from the site, they searched the car for the valuables. Most of them had been destroyed either by fire or by water—save for the tefillin, which were mostly salvaged. 


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