When danger is in the air, it has a way of making us laser-focused on what's really important in life.
Even if we put a lot of care into something, we can find ourselves fully prepared to abandon it if doing so increases the chances of protecting our loved ones. Moreover, we can even surprise ourselves with the fears we're suddenly willing to push aside to provide some much-needed help.
It's for that reason that the people we may be inclined to call heroes tend to reject that title because they see their actions as simply reactions or "doing what anybody would do."
All of this underscores why one man who apparently has a few hundred more loved ones than we might have expected was willing to go through a massive undertaking to keep them safe.