Med Students to the Rescue!

Since the local paper didn't take our photos, I thought I'd give Em and myself a little credit. Last night (Sat.) Em and I decided to stay in and watch Nip/Tuck since we weren't feeling up to going out. I had gotten up to get a pop and looked out the window and saw a little fire at the house across the street. I asked Em if she thought that was suppose to be burning, she said she didn't think so, but put her shoes on to go tell them that they had something burning in front of of their house. I decided to call 911 b/c it looked like the fire was getting bigger, but hung up when I realized the house was going to burn down before the fire trucks got there. I grabbed the fire extinguisher out of the hallway of our apartment and ran across the street to a Russian family (two women and three little girls) all hysterical with Emily trying to calm them down and keep the girls away from the flames. I was able to put the fire out with the pressurized water fire extinguisher before the fire department arrived. Apparently the woman had raked a bunch of leaves from her yard into a pile outside the garage along with a bunch of cardboard boxes and old phone books. She said she hadn't smoked near the leaves, but Emily and I have our doubts. Anyway, all we got was a "good job ladies" from the very butch police lady (I think she was checking us out), and told how to get the extinguisher refilled.

So...since there is no citizen of the year award being passed out here in Philly, I thought I'd give us a pat on the back for saving a house and potentially 5 people and 2 SUVs. I guess this is one instance where having no social life has paid off.