Don't anybody look to me to come get them out of a burning house -- I'll be extremely busy at that time, sorry. This man might be willing to go in and get you, though. Even if he does happen to be blind:
An unlikely hero is credited with saving his blind neighbor’s life and three newborn kittens. That’s because the hero is also blind.
Jim Sherman, 54, is a retired computer programmer with a heart and spirit as big as Texas. When his 84-year old neighbor in Montgomery County, Texas, recently suffered a stroke, he set up a baby monitor between their homes.
Monday night, Sherman heard something strange over the monitor. It was the elderly blind woman calling out his name. Her home was on fire.
With no way to speak with her, he ran out of his house, felt his way along the fence line and found her in the kitchen.
"I grabbed on to Ms. Smith's hand and led her out on to the porch," said Sherman.
In a nice change of pace from the usual mayhem in the news, the people in this story were taking care of somebody more helpless than they: Sherman, the elderly neighbor; and the neighbor, the kittens; so yay for kind people. Three cheers for brave people too; they do come in handy.
Posted by floridacracker at March 28, 2006 12:22 PM