Wheelchair-bound woman rescued from Ohio fire

March 11, 2022

MENTOR, Ohio (AP) — Good Samaritans stopped at a house fire
in northeast Ohio in time to carry a wheelchair-bound woman to safety.
It happened Tuesday afternoon in Mentor, east of Cleveland.
David Roach tells The (Willoughby) News-Herald (http://bit.ly/1hbGwix ) that he another employee of
the county engineer’s office were driving
by when they saw smoke and flames coming out of the home.
Roach
used his two-way radio to alert authorities, as a person across the
street yelled that somebody was still in the burning house.
Roach
forced the door open and within minutes he and others were hoisting a
wheelchair-bound resident out of the house. Roach said the woman and
another resident were apparently in shock and not making their way out.
Nobody was hurt. The fire apparently started in the attic.
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Information from: The News-Herald, http://www.news-herald.com/jrc-html/index/index_p33.html

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MENTOR, Ohio (AP) — Good Samaritans stopped at a house fire
in northeast Ohio in time to carry a wheelchair-bound woman to safety.
It happened Tuesday afternoon in Mentor, east of Cleveland.
David Roach tells The (Willoughby) News-Herald (http://bit.ly/1hbGwix ) that he another employee of
the county engineer’s office were driving
by when they saw smoke and flames coming out of the home.
Roach
used his two-way radio to alert authorities, as a person across the
street yelled that somebody was still in the burning house.
Roach
forced the door open and within minutes he and others were hoisting a
wheelchair-bound resident out of the house. Roach said the woman and
another resident were apparently in shock and not making their way out.
Nobody was hurt. The fire apparently started in the attic.
___
Information from: The News-Herald, http://www.news-herald.com/jrc-html/index/index_p33.html

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