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A good Samaritan in Boston helps save his neighbors from their burning home. A little after midnight, Clidfod Saintjean sprang into action when he heard fire alarms coming from the duplex next door to his house. The 45-year-old man saw his neighbors, a mother and her two children, were trapped on the second floor of the home.
Saintjean ran back to his house and got his mattress, which he placed on the ground below the home’s second floor window. "I told them to jump on the mattress," he said. "But they refused. I tell them, 'Come on, come on. The fire is coming too close to us.' And when I do that, they just drop the kids." After catching the neighbor’s two children, Saintjean convinced the mother to jump to safety.
Boston Fire Department spokesperson Brian Alkins praised Saintjean’s actions. "Very heroic. Quick thinking to realize there was a mattress," Alkins says. "Neighbors helping neighbors makes our job a lot easier." Firefighters were able to extinguish the fire within 30 minutes and the only injuries were a pair of firefighters who were treated at a nearby hospital and reported to be doing okay.
Source: WCVB