Gaven Puchinsky had been pushing vehicles onto a huge cargo ship in one of the nation’s busiest seaports when he heard a loud “clunking” noise that he believed came from the yellow Jeep Wrangler he was using to nudge the cars up a steep ramp in Newark, New Jersey.
Within minutes, the ship would be ablaze in a July fire that claimed the lives of two Newark fire captains.
Puchinsky estimated he had pushed about 50 cars onto the Italian