Wednesday, February 15, 2012 Editors Note: Everyday members of emergency services whether on duty or off duty step forward to serve and they each make a difference in someone elses life and their own life usually changes dramatically. Sometimes others help us, read about the stranger that helped the firefighter that day.

The article below is a must read as it is a very detailed story about an off duty emergency services responder who really, really, made a difference in someone elses life. the article is well written and we should all read it and be proud that he is one of our own.

DENVER - Capt. Mike Stanley believes that what happened changed the lives of every person who was on the light rail train that day.

Stanley is a firefighter from Aurora. He was off duty on Friday, Nov. 4 as he rode a light rail train through downtown Denver.

"[I had] just settled into my new book. The train was pretty crowded so I was riding backwards," he said.

As the train crossed the intersection at Speer Boulevard and 14th Street, he heard an impact.

"The train brakes locked up and we came to a stop," he said. "My first thought was, 'Oh, we hit a car in the intersection.'"

"Then people started screaming that, 'He hit a girl, oh my God, he hit that girl,' and there was a lot of kids on the train and people were yelling, 'Don't look, don't look.' So I handed my stuff to the person across from me and said, 'Hold this, I'll be back,'" Stanley said.

"One of the things that really sticks in my mind is when I first got out and started to try to care for Laura, there was a gentleman standing there on the steps of the light rail with the doors open, just a stranger to me, and he said, 'Do you need some help?'"

"He got off the train. I assumed he had no medical training, no background, but knew that there was somebody in need of help and came out there and assisted me with rolling her over, accessing her and taking care of her," Stanley said. "While a whole train full of people just stood there with their jaw dropped in horror - he's the one who stepped forward and said, 'I think I can help you.'"

"When I was leaving, her mom hugged me and said, 'Thank you for taking care of my baby.'"

Stanley still remembers that at the start of it, he was just an off-duty firefighter reading a book on a train.

"All those people's lives changed in an instant," he said.

Read the full details of this amazing story, you will be changed too. http://www.9news.com/rss/story.aspx?storyid=249497