A neighbor rescued a 97-year-old woman from her burning home in Alamo on Sunday evening, a San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District official said this morning. The blaze was reported at a one-story house on Via Aspero in Alamo around 5:45 p.m., Fire Chief Richard Price said. A neighbor helped the elderly woman get out of the burning house, and the home's other occupants also exited safely, the …

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Mayor Cory Booker of Newark, New Jersey, dashed into a burning building Thursday night to help rescue a trapped woman, an act of heroism that sent him to the hospital.

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Three people escaped a three-alarm fire on Linwood Avenue yesterday afternoon, thanks to the courage of a neighbor who raced past flames on the front porch to alert residents of the two-family home. “This man is the hero,” said one of the residents, Heather Prescott, nodding toward neighbor Sam Emerick, but keeping a tight grip on her 1-year-old daughter Kiela, who had been in the house with her …

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A DeForest family was saved by a quick-thinking neighbor after a possible explosion and fire tore through their home late Thursday night.

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