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Hero Surfaces Amid Series Of Wind-Whipped Fires
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Amid a series of fires driven by high winds across the Tri-State, a hero has emerged. In Brentwood, Long Island, Erick Landeros was driving by a home and noticed it was on fire. He pulled over, kicked down the front door, ran upstairs, and woke up a family of five.
They had no idea their home was ablaze. Landeros got everyone to safety.
“They probably would have burned,” Landeros said. “Everybody was sleeping. Nobody knew about it. It’s horrible. Someone just lost their house… it makes you feel really bad,” he said.
Wind-whipped flames were challenging firefighters across the Tri-State overnight.
One of the blazes raged along the Bronx-Mount Vernon border, leaving 18 people homeless. The blaze swept through a commercial space on the ground level and three apartments above.
The residents escaped without injuries, but all they could do was watch helplessly as firefighters remained on the scene, knocking out a few remaining stubborn pockets of the blaze.
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