Central Jackson County Fire Chief Kirk Lair, right, shakes hands with, from left, Eric Roddy, James Hensley and Eric Wheeler after they received awards Monday from the fire district and the American Red Cross for saving a woman from the basement of a burning home in Blue Springs in June this year. MIKE GENET/THE EXAMINER
By Mike Genet mike.genet@examiner.net On the afternoon of June 21, James Hensley said he happened to be driving home from work a bit earlier than…