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Losing 160 pounds makes irefighter dream come true

ATITANIC Texas gal who was so fat rescuers would have struggled to save her from a burning building has managed to lose 160 pounds — and fulfill her lifelong dream of becoming a lean, mean firefighter!

Penny Leaver, 43, says she was once an athletic child, “able to do whatever I wanted to do,” but her weight “spiraled out of control” over the years to the point where she “hated myself.”