Positivity: Four Citizens Rescue California Woman
All of them didn’t escape unharmed, but all are heroes:
Citizens rescue Redwood City woman from fire
Bay City News Service
Posted on Fri, May. 05, 2006Four civilian rescuers helped pull a Redwood City woman from her burning apartment this afternoon as flames licked out of a window and at the main entrance to the building, according to Redwood City Fire Department Battalion Chief Steve Cavallero.
The fire broke out in a single-story, three-unit building at 1193 King St. It was reported at 1:46 p.m. and a second alarm was called at 1:50 p.m. The blaze was brought under control at 2:08 p.m., he said.
The woman’s Oak Avenue neighbor, Alberto Hernandez, along with passersby Mike Nunez of Redwood City, Fred Babcock of San Mateo and Jess Coronel of Menlo Park saved the 50-year-old woman’s life, according to Cavallero.
“If she’d been left in there, I don’t know if she’d have been able to exit on her own,” he said.
When firefighters arrived, they found the four men at the front entrance of the unit pulling the woman from the burning building. Together with police and fire units, the men moved her onto the lawn of a neighboring house, and fire paramedics began treating her.
The woman suffered second-degree burns to 60 percent of her body, including her face, chest, arms and legs, but remained conscious throughout the rescue operation and while she was flown to Santa Clara Valley Medical Center for treatment, he said.
Two of the civilian rescuers were taken by ambulance to Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Redwood City with minor burns.
….. Redwood City police officer Dan Sharp, who was involved in the rescue, was taken to Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Redwood City to be treated for minor injuries.
