There’s a hero in #MiamiGardens, Florida, but instead of rocking a cape, this man was wearing a cast when he saved a life.
#AltaviousPowell said he used the cast on his broken arm to smash a window and get into his elderly neighbor’s house as it was burning Monday night, according to @CNN. Powell said he ran toward the home of his neighbor, 93-year-old Maria Cabral, when he smelled smoke.
He started hitting a window with his cast and a plastic chair until it broke and he was able to get inside. Powell said he found Cabral in the hallway by her bathroom, alone.
“I grabbed her with one arm,” Powell said. “She looked back at me and she just said ‘thank you.'” He also put out most of the flames.
Firefighters told CNN that when they arrived at the scene, they found smoke coming from the one-story home but there were no visible flames. Once crews were inside, they determined Powell had put out “the main body of the fire.”
The fire department is still working to confirm the cause of the fire. A relative of Cabral said she usually lights a candle in a corner of her home and that night, the flame caught on the wall and spread throughout the house.
Cabral was taken to a hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation, Miami-Dade Fire said. As for the broken-armed hero, he was evaluated at the scene but did not require any treatment.
What makes this story even sweeter, Powell said he’s known Cabral most of his life. “She watched me grow up since I was a little boy,” Powell said.
Stories like this certainly show that there are good people in the world and definitely good neighbors!
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