The State - News from Oct. 9, 1985

A national guardsman is credited by the Sacramento Fire Department with saving two women trapped in a nearly flattened car at the scene of Sunday’s 33-vehicle pileup on Interstate 5 in which eight people died. While his fellow guardsmen administered first aid and kept the two women alert, a Fire Department spokesman said, Pvt. Keith Roe, 19, used his hand to plug a leak in the gas tank of a wrecked truck for nearly half an hour as flames burned a few feet away. The women were rescued and hospitalized with back injuries. Those killed in the crash were Pamela Stapleton, 29, and her husband, Michael, 30, of Rancho Cordova, Calif.; her son, Michael Ostrander, 5, Redding, Calif.; Cassandra Phillips, 18, Woodland, Calif.; Crystal Sheppard, 68; Edith Neufeld, 63, and Mary Guthrie, 79, all of Ukiah, Calif., and Miriam Bednar, 48, Redwood City, Calif.