Positivity: Co-workers rescue woman from burning house
From Chicago (video is at link):
August 13, 2007
A woman was rescued from a house fire on Chicago’s South Side.
A mother and daughter were in the house at the time of the fire. The mother found her way out amid the smoke, as did one of the family’s pets, but the younger woman was trapped upstairs. And if it weren’t for the efforts of two very brave men who arrived even before the firefighters did, she may have not made it out.
“I didn’t do this to be a hero. I’m not a hero. When you see people who need help you help them,” said Marcus Valentine, rescuer.
Dana Culverson may beg to differ. If it weren’t for Valentine and another man, her daughter, 20-year-old Alicia seen here with a bandaged hand, may not have made it out of the fire that broke out in their home this morning in the 5300-block of South Wood. Dana made it out OK, but Alicia was trapped on the second floor.
“When he went in I didn’t think my daughter was still — but when I saw his face and I saw him pushing her from the window,” said Culverson.
Valentine is an electrician at Fulton School across the street. He and a co-worker were on their lunch break when the fire started.
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