Donald Wayne Smith looks on as Mayor Stan Booker reads a citation honoring him for his “swift and selfless thinking while on the job.” Smith, a window installer, detected a natural-gas leak at a customer’s home, evacuated the elderly occupants and notified the gas company. Smith’s actions “serve as an inspiring example of how one person’s intervention can safeguard lives” and exemplified “the spirit of a Good Samaritan,” the Mayor’s Citation of Valor declared. CITY OF LAWTON
