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Published on Thursday, October 02, 2008
By LA Daily News Staff Writer
NORTH HOLLYWOOD - The Rev. Donald Ashman - miraculously spared serious injury in the Sept. 12 Metrolink crash - knelt and prayed over the dead and dying as rescuers hauled them out.
He believes he was there for a reason.
"I'm one of those really old-fashioned people that believe that a bird doesn't fall out of the sky that God doesn't know about," Ashman said on Thursday.
In addition to tending to some of the injured - both physically and spiritually - the Thousand Oaks man tried to give the survivors of the horrific crash a sense of comfort.
But it wasn't simply surviving the crash that got him and five others - Mitch Englander, Adam Horwitz, Erin Anderson, Steve Columbus and Andre van der Valk - honored at a Mid-Valley Community Police Council luncheon Thursday. It's what they did in the ensuing crucial minutes and hours. In Ashman's case, he tended to the injured and administered last rites to the dead and dying
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