Lorne Mansky did what he hopes anyone would do.
The 55-year-old information technology specialist and other bystanders saved two men from a wheelchair-accessible van after it caught fire Thursday on a Southdale street.
The van was engulfed in flames before firefighters arrived.
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Lorne Manskypulled over a burning handi-van on his way to work Thursday morning and helped save two people in wheelchairs from the flames before the fire department arrived.
“What kind of a person would I be if I just stood by? Frankly, if something had happened to those folks and I didn’t do everything I could, I probably wouldn’t be able to sleep at night,” he said.
Mansky, who was driving to a see a client, saw the van at a four-way stop on Beaverhill Boulevard just before 9 a.m. and realized there was a fire under it.
“A sizeable cardboard box… got trapped in the undercarriage and my best guess would be the exhaust system ignited it,” said Mansky.
“The driver was driving along unaware, …