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    Company reduces risk of fire in gas tanks of police, military vehicles

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So protecting those who keep us safe through new technology company developing a way to prevent the gas tanks in a car from bursting in the plains.

Adam -- She's live in LA -- good morning.

Good morning militarily is an inspirational story about a hero who's been through an unspeakable tragedy and how his battle his fight.

Helped motivate an Arizona company to develop a new product that is saving thousands of lives.

She actually was living his dream just fourteen months -- -- career with the Phoenix police department when tragedy struck.

His patrol car was rear ended by -- car traveling over 100 miles per hour.

-- -- gas tank to explode in the -- to burst into flames with him trapped inside.

The initial burn.

Well.

Something that nearly took my life.

I spent five months in the hospital to an apple -- And so for years just trying to get past those injuries.

Jason has become a hometown hero even inspiring an Arizona company to develop technology that stops gas tanks in vehicles from exploding on impact.

-- -- technologies now being used in tens of thousands of police and emergency vehicles across the US.

As -- over 30000 military vehicles in Iraq and Afghanistan.

If there's something that we can do.

To make their jobs easier to help bring them home safely.

Mean there's no better feeling we get letters from parents and sometimes from -- saying -- your technology helps -- alive.

Military vehicles are designed only to resist the explosion from an attack or IED.

So when a convoys hit the gas -- -- the rupture and the troops inside get burned.

Same goes for some police cars but there are still over 300000 emergency vehicles on the road without the technology.

So Jason is currently lobbying cities across the country to get the fire panels.

Impact it.

That had on me it.

Made me realize.

What I need to be doing.

Jason recently started a foundation called beyond the flames he's touring the country getting motivational speeches and helping others go through some tragedy is themselves he says.

That he -- the electing this man on the face of the -- and would not trade one day of his life Adam Housley thank you from Los Angeles.

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