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A Welder Is Trapped in the Wreckage After an Accident, Survives Six Days on Rainwater – RedState

Matt Reum is a boilermaker (welder) from Mishawaka, Indiana. On December 20, Reum’s truck ran off Interstate 94, just shy of a body of water called Salt Creek. Instead of landing in the creek, Reum’s truck rolled several times and landed underneath an underpass. Reum was tightly wedged in the wreckage and unable to move … for six days. Reum’s survival can only be classified as a Christmas miracle.

A 27-year-old man survived for six days on only rainwater while pinned tightly inside his crashed pickup truck beneath a highway bridge in northwest Indiana, police said.

His ordeal ended when two men scouting for fishing spots Tuesday afternoon noticed the badly damaged vehicle, its white airbag deployed, and reached inside.

“They touched the body, and the person turned their head and started talking to them. So, that got a little rise out of them,” Sgt. Glen Fifield of the Indiana…

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