Newark Mayor Cory Booker saves neighbor from burning house!

[jimmy olsen]

Cool! 

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Newark Mayor Cory Booker helps save neighbor from fire

By Ian Johnston, msnbc.com

Newark Mayor Cory Booker suffered second-degree burns and smoke inhalation as he helped rescue his next-door neighbors from their burning house Thursday, according to reports.

Newark, New Jersey Fire Chief John Centanni told The Star-Ledger newspaper that the mayor may have saved the life of one resident.

Booker returned home to his house in the Upper Clinton Hill neighborhood to find the house next door was on fire, the paper said. He went in, followed by his security detail, and heard cries for help from upstairs. When he got to the second floor, he was engulfed in flames and smoke.

"I suddenly had the realization that I can't find this woman," Booker told the paper. "I look behind me and see the flames and I think 'I'm not going to get out of here.' Suddenly I was at peace with the fact that I was going to jump out the window."

Then he heard the woman's voice again from another bedroom.

"I just grabbed her and whipped her out of the bed," Booker said.

They got downstairs, but then collapsed, Booker said.

The paper reported a total of five people went the hospital: the mayor, a woman from the house and three members of his security detail.

Rescued woman has back, neck burns
The woman was listed in stable condition in hospital, the Star-Ledger said. She had burns to her back and neck.

Booker was treated for burns on his hand and breathing in smoke, the paper added.

"Thanks 2 all who are concerned. Just suffering smoke inhalation. We got the woman out of the house. We are both off to hospital. I will b ok," Booker said in a message on his Twitter account.

"Thanks everyone, my injuries were relatively minor. Thanks to Det. Alex Rodriguez who helped get all of the people out of the house," he added on Twitter.

Another Twitter user, Alethea Felton, said in a message responding to Booker's tweet, "@CoryBooker Wow...I can't wait until you're PRESIDENT oneday-YOU ROCK! God bless you for your devotion & humility to those you serve."

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[DGuller]

Meh, I'm more expressed with Christie.  Everyone can walk into a burning building, but it takes courage to call someone an idiot.

[CountDeMoney]

Man, can you imagine the grease fire if it were Christie in that house?

[Sheilbh]

The documentary Street Fight about Brooker's first campaign for Mayor is superb.

[CountDeMoney]

4 to 1 odds Mitt Romney runs into a burning building to save something or somebody between the DNC and the general election.

[Ed Anger]

4 to 1 odds Mitt Romney runs into a burning building to save something or somebody between the DNC and the general election.

Ann runs in.

[CountDeMoney]

4 to 1 odds Mitt Romney runs into a burning building to save something or somebody between the DNC and the general election.

Ann runs in.

Mitt will say Ann told him she ran in.