He awoke as firefighters carried him from his house, thick smoke lingering in the air as flames surrounded them. "You're going to be okay," a firefighter told him.
That day, 80 percent of Jeff Kuhn's body was burned in a house fire, but he doesn't remember much about it. He doesn't remember the intense pain from his burns, or the sirens wailing as the ambulance rushed down the highway toward the hospital. But he does remember watching trees blur by, and the paramedics telling him they were there to help. Soon after, Kuhn was placed in a medically induced coma and stayed unconscious for nearly two months.
"My injury was so bad and so painful that I decided that I wouldn't wish what happened to me on anyone else in the world, not even my worst enemy," Kuhn said.
Almost 25 years later, the South Bay local recounts his experiences overcoming his burn injuries and neuromuscular disease in his new book "Blue Sky Lightning: How To Survive And Thrive When Life Blindsides You."