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SOUTHWICK BLAZE: Hanna Turner broke through a window to save her son, Samuel DelNegro, from a fire that tore through the family’s Southwick home on Christmas Eve.
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“It was a close call,” said Southwick Fire Chief Richard Anderson. He said his firefighters were en route, but fast-moving flames were already ripping through the home overlooking Congamond Lakes — and the window was the only way to get to the tot — when Turner broke through glass, lacerating her legs to save her son’s life.
“What she did probably saved her baby — no two ways about it,” said Anderson, who said his crews were still about two precious minutes away. “We would have gotten there, but how much smoke damage would the baby have suffered before we got there? She certainly seemed to do the right thing.”
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Anderson said the family had returned home from a Christmas party and put the boy to bed in a basement apartment of the two-family home and went upstairs. Another resident smoking on an upper deck saw smoke coming out of the basement at about 11:45 p.m. and alerted the other residents. The only way into the lower floor by then was through a window, the chief said. The mom broke it, crawled in and handed the boy out to his father.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2014/12/mom_pulls_son_from_fire_horror
Mom pulls son from fire horror
Friday, December 26, 2014
By: Antonio Planas, Chris Cassidy
Boston Herald
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