Neighbour saves family from New Westminster blaze ...

[Golf Cart]

Knowing David I wouldnt have expected anything less. Its in his DNA.

Some people have it. Some don't

(should have combed your hair for the interview tho)

Kudo Dood !!

[FalcoColumbarius]

.......(should have combed your hair for the interview tho) .....

Which one?

[jessef]

update & small world

I never knew but the old lady is the mum of my buddy's ex wife.

She kept going back to get the two dogs ashes so the RCMP got two urns and gave them to her. Really nice gesture.

Good people all around in this case.

[delicat]

Thanks everyone, I really appreciate.

But be careful what you see in the news, they tend to embellish!

You know guys what hit me the most? It was right after the fire, gathering with all the neighbours that helped out or took the time to drop by and strongly feeling the tight knit of our neighbouring community. It's this simple. Now get back to enjoy your trucks!

Cheers
Mr. D

[jessef]

Now get back to enjoy your trucks!

You are implying that Safari's are superior to Delica's ?!? Repent ! or you shall fear the wrath of the modhammer !

[delicat]

Who said Delica aren't trucks, they've always been in my books...

[BCDelica]

Cheers David, good job! From both my son and I (he remembers ya).

No get back out there and work on your Safari, you never know who may need you help.

.....great story

[jessef]

Here's the article in case it gets lost in the CTV archives.

That's quite the JDM dedication. Working at all hours of the wee night !

An off-duty RCMP member is being called a hero after rescuing three people from a home that caught fire Sunday in New Westminster.

Shortly after midnight, David Francoeur noticed flames shooting out of his neighbour's house while he was working on his car and called 911.

When he saw a woman trapped on the home's upper floor, he rushed to get a ladder and managed to coax her to climb down.

"He's a hero. If he didn't save her, she would have been in the house, she would have died," said Howard Gollinger, a man who lives in the basement of the home.

Gollinger was in a separate shed when the fire broke out. He got outside safely after realizing there was trouble when the lights went out.

But the woman's elderly parents, who live on the main floor of the house, were seemingly unaware of the fire happening upstairs. Francoeur pulled the two from the home just as firefighters were arriving.

Although Francoeur is being praised for his actions, he doesn't think he should be called a hero.

"That's overkill; it's just a reaction. I am sure you would have done the same," Francoeur told CTV News.

Everyone living in the house got out, but two small dogs belonging to the woman who was stuck on the top floor were killed.

Francoeur said saving the woman was difficult because she didn't want to leave the animals.

"It was a struggle; she didn't want to come down," he said. "She was trying to go back inside the house for her pets."

Fire officials are investigating the cause of the blaze they think began on the top floor.

"It looks as though it actually started in either the bathroom or a bedroom area," Assistant Fire Chief Sam Cirillo said.

[RichD]

I agree with David. When he says anyone else would do the same; you can and should have this attitude.

The simple act of responding, and taking careful action transforms an emergency into a rescue.

When people call that heroism they distance themselves from it. Don't be a hero, just act. Like David did.

[thedjjack]

Here's the article in case it gets lost in the CTV archives.

That's quite the JDM dedication. Working at all hours of the wee night !

I hate to imagine what would have happened if he did not need to work on his Nissan all the time.