Boy, 11, saves grandfather from burning SUV

Saturday, August 31, 2019

Eleven year old Eli Jenkins, of Butler County, says his favorite activity is "going to town with PaPa" and "picking up a few things." Eli's PaPa is Wayne Jenkins, 87, a partial amputee from Poplar Bluff, who is wheelchair-bound due to an accident decades ago.

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