(CNN)Roseanne Kleppsattel said she felt her late husband watching over her as she stood on a New York highway wearing his firefighter turnout coat over her clothes, lending a hand at a crash scene on the way home from his funeral.
Kleppsattel, a volunteer with the Kings Park Fire Department on Long Island, where her husband, Fred, spent 45 years, said she didn"t hesitate to hop out of the back seat of the fire truck when she and members of the department stumbled upon the five-vehicle accident Tuesday.
EMTs were the first ones there, there tending to a trapped victim.
For protection, Roseanne Kleppsattel grabbed her husband"s worn jacket with his last name across the back.
"You just react," she said.
Firefighters had to tear the roof and doors for the woman to be rescued. Suffolk County Police said one person was treated for non-life threatening injuries at a local hospital.
Kleppsattel said she believed her husband was laughing -- with his cigar and Scotch, of course -- saying: "You better make me proud."
Phil Bates, Kleppsattel"s co-worker at the Northport Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Northport, New York, saw the picture on Facebook of Kleppsattel with her husband"s turnout coat and spread the word about her selflessness.
"This is the best of humanity," said Bates, 51 of East Islip, New York.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/30/us/firefighter-widow-crash-scene-trnd/index.html
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