Famous for so many seconds

I was hailed in the street by an acquaintance: did I know that I featured, front page and next to last page, in the local newspaper? I'd been there before, and didn't expect much: a blurred group photo, at best. But there I was, featured photographicallyas a hero in a lifeboat rescue which I hadn't even participated in. Other, more frightening rescues, in which I had actually had a rôle, had not been featured. That's the way with the press. Heroes are manufactured, according to need. Still, it's all grist to the mill when trying to finance the fuel bill of the lifeboat.