Police officer saves civilians from fire

     In Boston on April 30th, a police officer saved three people from a raging house fire just outside his precinct. According to CNN, Luis Lopez had not received fire training in over 20 years. Lopez saw the black smoke, and quickly drove his police car over to help. He ended up on Montello Street, and saw a group of people gathered around No.8. The fire department had not yet arrived, and Lopez was the only officer on scene. As his fellow police officers were on their way, Lopez decided to take charge. "As I am yelling at people to get back, now people are yelling back at me that people are inside the house," Lopez recalled. CNN also said that he did not know how many people were inside the house, but he ran and burst through the door anyway. Lopez encountered three people inside the house and helped them get to safety. Although he saved the civilians, Lopez did not have time to check the second floor. " We had to leave the house. It was fully engulfed. There was nothing else we could do at that point." Lopez later learned there was no one else upstairs, and he had led everyone to safety.

-Josh Wynn