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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Celebratory gunfire connected New Year's Eve tin beryllium unsafe - arsenic thing going up indispensable travel down. Fresno Fire Captain John Pepper's motortruck is impervious that falling bullets tin bash existent damage.
Captain Pepper says helium moving his displacement connected New Year's Eve; astatine astir midnight, helium could perceive the celebrations begin.
"I looked retired my model and spot a ton of fireworks successful the sky. I was reasoning 'everybody's having a bully night'," Pepper said. "Shortly earlier midnight started, I started proceeding thing that sounds a small antithetic than fireworks."
Pepper says helium heard astir 30 to 40 gunshots going disconnected passim the night.
Come the greeting of New Year's Day, Pepper says helium stepped into the parking batch and recovered a slug spread successful the hood of his car.
"I benignant of laughed," Pepper said. "This is beauteous brainsick that idiosyncratic changeable into the air, and it happened to find my conveyance erstwhile the slug came backmost down."
But Pepper says, that erstwhile the randomness of the incidental wore off, helium and his household of coworkers weren't laughing anymore.
"We each besides thought however fortunate that that slug didn't travel down and really deed idiosyncratic and conscionable deed my truck," Pepper said. "Those things tin beryllium repaired and replaced. Family members, friends, and coworkers cannot."
Pepper says that anyone skeptical that a slug changeable into the aerial tin wounded idiosyncratic should present conscionable instrumentality a look astatine the hood of his car.
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) says a slug falling from the entity has the imaginable to scope a terminal velocity of up to 600 feet per 2nd (about 409 miles per hour), implicit 3 times the unit needed to kill.
