Orange County officials are praising one brave firefighter after he rescued two people trapped inside a small plane that crashed on the 405 Freeway near John Wayne Airport on Friday. Capt. John Meffert, a firefighter for 17 years in Avalon on Catalina Island, was off-duty and driving to his home in Rancho Cucamonga when the twin-engine Cessna 310 crashed on the southbound 405.
