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SHEPHERDSVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — A Southeast Bullitt firefighter didn’t let his age stop him from saving a man’s life at a county fair last month.

“I was tired,” Clifton Vaught, who is from Spencer County, said. “I’m 63 years old. I’d come off a 12-hour shift.”

Wednesday, June 12 was just an ordinary day for Clifton Vaught.

“All I remember that day is coming home from work and laying in my recliner,” Clifton Vaught said.

After a quick afternoon nap, Clifton Vaught took his grandson, Wyatt, to the Shelby County Fair. 

“I’m the one who has been teaching him how to drag race and everything,” Clifton Vaught said.

As Clifton Vaught stood at the starting line of the dirt track, ready to cheer Wyatt on for a third time, he collapsed. He has been coaching Wyatt for years, and never misses a race.