Firefighter hailed for catch of a lifetime By Marie Szaniszlo Wednesday, October 19, 2011 - Updated 2 days ago
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A 6-year-old boy whose grandmother dropped him from a third-story window Monday as flames engulfed their Roxbury apartment building was reunited today with the Boston firefighter who made the catch of a lifetime.
“You lost your home, but this is your house now,” Lt. Glenn McGillivray said, scooping Xavier Lara up in his arms at the Engine 42, Rescue 2 firehouse in Eggleston Square. “You come here anytime. You’re one of us.”
Mayor Thomas M. Menino congratulated McGillivray for saving “our little pal,” one of 15 rescues firefighters made early Monday, when 24 apartments at Westminister Avenue and Wardman Road were destroyed, leaving dozens of people homeless.
“Thank you so much,” Xavier’s grandmother, Judith Lamb, said, giving McGillivray a long hug.
Lamb even embraced Jonathan Martinez, a 27-year-old man who showed up at the firehouse, claiming he was the one who saved her grandson. But she was adamant that she had dropped Xavier into the arms of a firefighter.
“I thank God (McGillivray) was in the right place at the right time,” Lamb told reporters. “I’m shocked to know I’m still here. ...When I go to sleep, I dream I’m in fire.”
Mohamed Abdul Jabar, the 27-year-old Medford man accused of setting the blaze in a failed suicide attempt, was held on $100,000 bail yesterday after he was arraigned on arson and attempted murder charges from his bed at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he is being treated for severe burns.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
So why would they try to rewrite this story and lie????? Why did the firefighter need to be recognized and celebrated as the hero, when in fact HE WAS NOT????
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
So why would they try to rewrite this story and lie????? Why did the firefighter need to be recognized and celebrated as the hero, when in fact HE WAS NOT????
probably for the same reason that Roger Hull, Bob Farley and Hugh Farley try to take credit for all the great things the Democratic leadership has done in Schenectady County .. because they (both Farleys and Hull) are Grade A Self-Absorbed, Self-Serving Self-Enriching A-holes
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson
OK.....firefighters are 'heroes'.....but......THEY CHOSE IT........just like soldiers/nurses/police etc........yay.......WOOT WOOT......society only pays public workers and public workers think they are owed a ton......
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
I think you are all missing the 'real' story here. The fireman did NOT catch the kid. The citizen in the first video is the one who actually caught the kid. Folks that we know live there were eye witnesses!!!
The question is.......why is the story being told the wrong way???? The folks who live there say it is 'political'!!
Some say that the kid and parents were told to change their story!!
Doesn't anyone take issue with that????
Sure everyone is caught up in the fact that the kid was saved to begin with....but....
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
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