TUSTIN -- Here's something you should know about Chuck Rees.
About 10 years ago, he was calling his wife Laurie from a payphone -- yes, they had payphones back then -- when Laurie heard a skirmish and the phone drop.
Hello? Hello?
It was 10 minutes before she heard her husband's out-of-breath voice: He'd just seen a purse snatcher and given chase.
That's Chuck Rees.
"You hear about people who don't get involved," says Rees, 51, of Tustin, who works as a Costco cashier. "That bothers me. I swore I'd never do that."
So naturally, when he saw black smoke in Buena Park last September, he drove straight to it.
