Elderly Couple Saved From Burning Home!
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WHITTIER – Concerned neighbors rescued an elderly couple from their burning house Friday, then attacked the blaze with garden hoses until firefighters arrived.
Ashley Colbern, 21, said she noticed smoke coming from the Rio Florida Drive home of her elderly neighbors, 83-year-old Matthew Papac and 80-year-old Corrine Papac, shortly before 2 p.m.
Colbern said she rang the doorbell, and Corrine Papac came to the door.
“She wasn’t aware of the fire,” Colbern said.
Colbern said she asked Corrine Papac where her husband was, and the woman directed her to a back bedroom.
After telling Corrine Papac to get out of the home, Colbern said she entered the bedroom and found Matthew Papac napping.
He didn’t respond to her warnings at first, she said.
Matthew Papac said he thought he was dreaming when Colbern first arrived and began telling him there was a fire.
“I was jumping – I was doing anything I could to get his attention,” she said.
Ultimately, Matthew Papac said he was escorted from his home by Colbern and another neighbor, 70-year-old Bruce Wyatt.
“We were running through the den there,” Matthew Papac said. “The smoke was filling up the room. Bruce grabbed me by the shoulder and said, `stay low.”‘
In the end, everyone made it out of the house unharmed, though fire officials initially estimated the value of damages to the single-story Friendly Hills home at about $600,000.
Read more: Neighbors rescue elderly couple from burning Whittier home – Whittier Daily News http://www.whittierdailynews.com/news/ci_17541604#ixzz1G7UKEOOc
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