A life, which unfolded with glory, bravery and sacrifice—friends and family members gathered to remember a Good Samaritan like few others, 63-year-old Pierre Gibbons.
In September of 2019, Gibbons was watching Monday Night Football when he heard an explosion and then ran across the street into an elderly woman’s burning home in Patterson Park to try to save her life.
Firefighters found both of them where they’d collapsed inside the front door trying to make it out, and Gibbons had suffered burns over 80 percent of his body, which would lead to 64 different surgeries in the years that followed…