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Mayor Booker saves woman in fire
Usually the mayor gives a "Key to the City" to other people in recognition of outstanding behavior...
This is one time where THE MAYOR HIMSELF should be getting it...  
Mayor Booker saves woman in fire
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Reason No. 1 to live next door to Newark Mayor Cory Booker: He just might save your life one day.
Booker saw flames and smoke pouring from the second floor of the small apartment building next to his home late Thursday night after he returned from an interview with a local news program. But seeing no residents outside, he rushed into the two-story building, looking for residents with his three-man security detail in tow, New Jersey’s Newark Star-Ledger reports.
“I just grabbed her and whipped her out of the bed,” said Booker, who rescued a resident amid a raging fire.
“My first instinct when I jumped through the kitchen, which was all in flames, I actually wasn’t thinking. But then when I got there and couldn’t find her in all the smoke … that’s when I had very clear thoughts that ‘I’m not going to get out of this place alive,’” Booker said in an interview Friday with CBS “This Morning.”
“You know, it’s your ‘Come to Jesus’ moment,” Booker said. “Yesterday, all my problems were really big to me. Today things feel a lot more clear, and I have a lot more respect for firefighters.”
Booker also dismissed his branding as a “superhero” after rescuing the woman.
“I think that’s way over the top, honestly,” he said, when asked about the newly branded title at a press conference Friday. “There are firefighters that do this every single day. I’m a neighbor that did what most neighbors would do, which is to jump into action to help a friend.”
Booker was taken to a hospital Thursday night to be treated for smoke inhalation and second-degree burns on his hand. The woman he pulled out of the house was in stable condition and his security guards, who helped other residents get out of the building, also were taken to the hospital.
He took to Twitter to say that everything turned out all right. “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,” he wrote.
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Putting risk aside to help, humility, and praising the jobs of Newark's finest...STAND-UP guy!!... 
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