Army Veteran Receives Commendation for Helping Elderly Korean Woman Out of Burning Home in Pyeongtaek
Good job by this Army veteran living in Pyeongtaek:
A quiet evening at home took a chaotic turn for U.S. Army veteran Arthur Chavarria when his wife, Kim Dong Young, opened the door on Nov. 1 and shouted, “There’s a fire!” Chavarria was headed for bed that night, but instead slipped on a pair of flip-flops and ran toward smoke rising from an old house in Seokgeun village near Camp Humphreys. “I heard a woman screaming — a really loud, desperate scream,” he told Stars and Stripes by phone Wednesday. “The moment I heard that, I just ran toward the residence.”
What happened next earned the couple a commendation from the Pyeongtaek Fire Department and praise from Fire Chief Kang Bong-ju. “We would like to express our gratitude to Mr. and Mrs. Chavarria for quickly reporting the fire and rescuing a precious life,” Kang said at Wednesday’s commendation ceremony. When he rushed outside that night, Chavarria saw a neighboring homeowner, an elderly woman, heading back into the burning structure. “I thought, ‘There’s probably somebody in there if she’s going back inside,’ ” he said.
Chavarria followed her in and quickly realized she was alone, attempting to fight the flames with a garden hose. “She was handing me the hose, wanting me to help her put out the fire,” he said. But the smoke was heavy, and he could not let her stay. “She could’ve passed out or worse,” he added.
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At least the bales of black tar heroin the old woman was hording in the back room seems to have come out OK.
With the correct marketing, that could increase the value.
Who wouldn’t want to try Smokey Skag?
Those tall apartment buildings and the Korean way of doing electrical wiring always has me worried when the wife goes and visits her sister. The wiring in those older places were straight out of an an electricians nightmare
So he basically stopped the old woman who went back into the building, from putting out the fire on her property. She should sue him.
OK OK, it was just a joke, using the Trumpian thought process where everything is a money transaction.