AFTER:
In March of 2001, Jason Schechterle, a young, 28-year-old, Phoenix officer who was horribly burned in a crash involving a taxi cab driver who, while driving, suffered a seizure.A speeding taxi – piloted by a driver who was suffering a seizure – struck the officer’s car (stopped at a redlight) from behind at a speed approaching 100 miles an hour.As the fire fighters pulled the young officer from the crushed and still burning vehicle they wondered if they had done him a favor.When Officer Schechterle was wheeled in, the doctors were stunned at his condition. The burns were much worse than they thought.The officer’s face and head were destroyed by fourth degree burns. As the doctors continued to remove layer after layer of skin, they realized that it would leave the officer with no living tissue and literally no face. In the morning, doctors saw that his eyelids and eyebrows were gone, and so was most of his nose and ears. He had no cheeks or forehead, no skin whatsoever.
Today he speaks to burn victims and works on behalf of charitable organizations, inspiring others by his own struggle and survival.
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