It's one of the few bright spots to come out of Thursday's disaster in Lawrence.
As his neighbors were evacuating, off-duty Lawrence firefighter Lt. Dave Amero ran house to house, shutting off the gas. Amero said he realized there was a problem when his wife told him their house reeked of gas. "I just started running around, shutting off meters. It was all I could do at the time," said Amero.
Moments later, Amero said he heard the explosion that leveled a house on Chickering Road. He soon found out the problem was so much bigger than he thought. "Once I called the fire in and they said they had ten fires going on at once. I had no idea what was going on," said Amero.