Racer faces surgeries after 'miracle' rescue
Harli White was still on fire when Donnie Ray Crawford helped pull her from the burning race car.
Crawford pounced on the 12-year-old girl, trying to smother the flames.
"I thought for sure I was smothering a dead girl,” said Crawford, who was strapped into his race car waiting for another race to begin when he saw the smoke.
Harli had been inside the sprint car since it burst into flames minutes earlie...
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