Not all heroes wear capes, as the saying goes. Some, like this local police officer, save their family from a house fire using only a window and a bedsheet.
They can’t always leap tall buildings in a single bound, either. What they do have is exceptional courage and the willingness to exercise it during times of crisis.July 15 started out like any other summer evening. Seawright, 39, and her two daughters picked up takeout from the Willow Grove Mall before heading to their Mount Airy home for dinner and a show on Disney+.
“I attempted to go downstairs but we couldn’t,” she told me. “The smoke was too heavy. I went in my bedroom and I looked out of the window and I said, ‘This is where we’ve got to go.’”around 20 to 30 feet above the ground, seemingly too far to safely jump. There was no one to hold the sheet for her, so she decided to jump. To avoid landing on her sister, whoon their front steps, she propelled her body forward in a giant leap and managed to land nearby. She sprained her ankle but jumped right up and headed to a neighbor’s house to tell them what was going on.
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