Mom's Premonition Saves Family From Burning Car Inferno!

2025-08-01 12:00:31.666

One morning, the author's husband had a nightmare about crashing his car on the Hewitt Avenue Trestle bridge and having to choose which child to save. Two weeks later, while driving her children to preschool, she smelled burning plastic and saw a "STOP" warning flash on her dashboard. Smoke filled her car as she drove onto the bridge, and soon flames erupted from the hood. With no shoulder on the long bridge, she managed to pull over, but the fire intensified. She frantically tried to get her children out, calling AAA but finding her membership had expired. A stranger heroically intervened, taking one child from her arms as flames engulfed the car. The mother grabbed her other child and escaped just as the car became completely engulfed in fire. The quick thinking and the stranger's help saved them all. The mother struggled with the trauma afterward, but EMDR therapy helped her cope. While the cause of the fire remains unknown, the experience left her eternally grateful and highlighting the importance of intuition and the unexpected kindness of strangers.