South Florida Sun-Sentinel
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — For the first time on Saturday morning, Beth Lahtela met the construction worker who helped save her life five months ago.
She sat in her wheelchair at the front of the First Baptist Church of Fort Lauderdale as she watched Hugo Toro cross the stage to take his award, the Certificate of Heroism, from Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue for his quick action early in the morning on Nov. 30 when he witnessed Lahtela pinned beneath a car near Fort Lauderdale’s beach. He and several of his fellow construction workers who had been nearby mustered the collective strength to free Lahtela from underneath the car…