A three-year-old Massachusetts girl was rescued from the top floor of a burning building by a firefighter being praised by witnesses as a “hero.”
The Wednesday morning Everett apartment fire was first noticed by two public works employees who were driving down the street when they spotted the smoke, Boston 25 News reported.
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Jason Papa and Jesse Whinocour quickly ran into the building on the coroner of Hancock and Tappan streets around 8:00 a.m. to warn the residents inside.
“We were driving down the street and we saw the smoke. I told him to stop the truck. We ran in and started kicking doors and knocking on doors. We ran inside the apartments to make sure nobody was in there,” Whinocour told the local station.
The two men estimated that approximately 20 people were inside the building when…
