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Witnesses, Off-Duty Fireman Rescue Two Women From Fire
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Date: June 23, 2012 07:35AM
Witnesses, Off-Duty Fireman Rescue Two Women From Fire
The rescue took place Friday afternoon in Centreville.
By Mary C. Stachyra
June 22, 2012
http://centreville.patch.com/articles/witnesses-off-duty-fireman-rescue-two-women-from-fire#video-10419890
Three witnesses and a fireman teamed up on Friday afternoon to save two women from a fire at a Centreville townhouse.
Two people were transported from the scene, near 6120 Hoskins Hollow Circle, with what appeared to be non-life-threatening injuries. Dozens of Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department firefighters were able to get the fire, which started shortly before 4 p.m., under control in about 20 minutes, according to emergency personnel.
Said Benayed, a Fairfax County employee, was working outside when he smelled smoke. He raced over to a townhouse, where he saw fire from the back. Concerned that there might be someone inside the house, he busted the door open, but no one was there. Seeing that the fire had spread, he busted open the door to an adjoining townhouse.
Inside were two women. One was elderly, situated in what appeared to be a hospital chair, and the other, younger, was asleep next to her, Benayad said.
“Entire half of the house on fire and they sleep. They have no idea,” said Benayad.
Ashley Osterday, 32, a neighbor, and an unidentified male neighbor had run inside by that point to assist.
It was around that time that Captain William Moreland of the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department, an off-duty public information officer, arrived at the scene. Moreland had spotted the fire as he drove from a nearby road and called in the coordinates to radio dispatch.
After arriving at the scene, he obtained the address to give to the dispatch units. He immediately suited up, entered the house and helped the Good Samaritans take the woman out.
There was also a dog in the house, which they were able to save. Osterday took the Blue Beagle to her house, where it is resting safe and sound.
All the people inside received medical attention. Investigators are trying to determine the cause of the incident.
Captain William Moreland of the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department and Said Benayed, a county employee, pose for a picture after a rescue at a Centreville townhouse. Two people were transported from 6120 Hoskins Hollow Circle, with what appeared to be non-life-threatening injuries. Dozens of Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department firefighters were able to get the fire, which started shortly before 4 p.m., under control in about 20 minutes, according to emergency personnel. Credit MaryC.Stachyra
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The rescue took place Friday afternoon in Centreville.
By Mary C. Stachyra
June 22, 2012
http://centreville.patch.com/articles/witnesses-off-duty-fireman-rescue-two-women-from-fire#video-10419890
Three witnesses and a fireman teamed up on Friday afternoon to save two women from a fire at a Centreville townhouse.
Two people were transported from the scene, near 6120 Hoskins Hollow Circle, with what appeared to be non-life-threatening injuries. Dozens of Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department firefighters were able to get the fire, which started shortly before 4 p.m., under control in about 20 minutes, according to emergency personnel.
Said Benayed, a Fairfax County employee, was working outside when he smelled smoke. He raced over to a townhouse, where he saw fire from the back. Concerned that there might be someone inside the house, he busted the door open, but no one was there. Seeing that the fire had spread, he busted open the door to an adjoining townhouse.
Inside were two women. One was elderly, situated in what appeared to be a hospital chair, and the other, younger, was asleep next to her, Benayad said.
“Entire half of the house on fire and they sleep. They have no idea,” said Benayad.
Ashley Osterday, 32, a neighbor, and an unidentified male neighbor had run inside by that point to assist.
It was around that time that Captain William Moreland of the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department, an off-duty public information officer, arrived at the scene. Moreland had spotted the fire as he drove from a nearby road and called in the coordinates to radio dispatch.
After arriving at the scene, he obtained the address to give to the dispatch units. He immediately suited up, entered the house and helped the Good Samaritans take the woman out.
There was also a dog in the house, which they were able to save. Osterday took the Blue Beagle to her house, where it is resting safe and sound.
All the people inside received medical attention. Investigators are trying to determine the cause of the incident.
Captain William Moreland of the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department and Said Benayed, a county employee, pose for a picture after a rescue at a Centreville townhouse. Two people were transported from 6120 Hoskins Hollow Circle, with what appeared to be non-life-threatening injuries. Dozens of Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department firefighters were able to get the fire, which started shortly before 4 p.m., under control in about 20 minutes, according to emergency personnel. Credit MaryC.Stachyra
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Re: Witnesses, Off-Duty Fireman Rescue Two Women From Fire
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Date: June 23, 2012 11:49AM
Re: Witnesses, Off-Duty Fireman Rescue Two Women From Fire
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Date: June 23, 2012 12:05PM
Hometown Hero's, What else can be said. Thanks for your Service.
Re: Witnesses, Off-Duty Fireman Rescue Two Women From Fire
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NObama
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Date: June 23, 2012 12:10PM
Damn foreigners trying to take firefighting jobs that belong to 'murrka. They took our jobs!
Re: Witnesses, Off-Duty Fireman Rescue Two Women From Fire
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Date: June 23, 2012 02:52PM
If only they reported the real story.....
Re: Witnesses, Off-Duty Fireman Rescue Two Women From Fire
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Date: June 23, 2012 03:29PM
@417 - I know, right?
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Re: Witnesses, Off-Duty Fireman Rescue Two Women From Fire
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Date: June 23, 2012 04:10PM
No CERT? Where CERT?
Re: Witnesses, Off-Duty Fireman Rescue Two Women From Fire
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BEH
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Date: June 25, 2012 08:36AM
Were they hot?
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How Five Centreville Residents Saved Their Neighbors From a Fire
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Date: July 21, 2012 08:26AM
How Five Centreville Residents Saved Their Neighbors From a Fire
The Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department honored five people Thursday for rescuing two women from a blazing home in June.
By Mary C. Stachyra
July 20, 2012
http://centreville.patch.com/articles/life-savers-how-five-centreville-residents-saved-their-neighbors-from-a-fire#photo-10712446
Zoe Shankle, Al Hussein Ahmed Wanas, Ashley Osterday, Deborah Shankle and Said Benayed are the kind of people you want around in an emergency. Particularly when a fire breaks out.
On Thursday, the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department presented the five Centreville residents with Life Saving Awards, after the group worked together last month, "without due regard for their personal safety," to save two neighbors who were asleep inside their townhouse during a fire.
"It's not often we have citizens who are willing to do whatever it takes to help another person in distress," Deputy Chief James J. Walsh, A-Shift Operations Deputy, said as he presented the awards.
Over the past month, the full story of what happened has slowly unfolded. The fire started shortly before 4 p.m. on June 22nd, after an unknown passerby flicked smoking materials onto a mulch pile near a townhouse on Hoskins Hollow Circle in Centreville, according to Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department officials.
When the fire started, Wanas, 24, was outside his home. Newly arrived from Egypt, Wanas had just been blowing leaves and chatting with Said Benayed, 48, a Fairfax County employee. They had discovered they both knew Arabic. All of a sudden, they saw smoke from a nearby house.
Wanas ran inside to get his fiance, Zoe, 22, and her mother, Deborah, out of their house. Benayed called 9-1-1 and ran to the direction of the smoke. He was joined by Ashley Osterday, another neighbor, who had been working from home that day due to a recent knee injury. They saw fire coming from the home's backyard.
"We pounded on the door," Osterday recalled. "The fence was starting to catch on fire, so Said kicked the door in."
They were afraid people might be inside, but that first townhouse proved to be empty. They ran to the adjoining house. Once again, Benayed busted the door open.
Inside were two women, asleep. One, an elderly lady, was laying on a hospital bed. They woke up the women, but the elderly lady couldn't leave on her own. By this time, though, Deborah, Wanas and Zoe had run inside. Wanas and Zoe helped Benayed lift the woman, while Deborah brought the wheelchair over. Then Deborah ran outside to see if she could do anything to help save the property. But it was too far gone.
"The fence just suddenly collapsed and a wall of flame came toward me," said Deborah, who works as a kindergarten instructional assistant at Centreville Elementary School. So she went back out the front, while Osterday grabbed the women's Blue Beagle dog on her way out.
As they were leaving, they were assisted by Captain William Moreland, a public information officer in the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department. He was off-duty that day and happened to see the fire as he drove by. He called it in, and immediately drove to the house and suited up.
The two women were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Three of the five went to the hospital to be evaluated for smoke inhalation. The blaze caused $160,000 worth of damage and displaced eight people.
But there was no loss of life, thanks to the teamwork between the five neighbors. Much of it was instinctual.
"We weren't thinking. We were just taking action because the house was burning down," Wanas said.
"It's amazing what adrenaline will let you do," said Osterday. "Sometimes you just don't think."
While no one at the ceremony on Thursday ever expected to get an award for saving a life, it's probably safe to say that it's only the second-most important event in Zoe and Wanas' week.
They're getting married on Saturday.
From left to right: Deputy Chief James Walsh, Al Hussein Ahmed Wanas, Deborah Shankle, Said Benayed, Ashley Osterday, Zoe Shankle and Captain William Moreland. Credit MaryC.Stachyra
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The Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department honored five people Thursday for rescuing two women from a blazing home in June.
By Mary C. Stachyra
July 20, 2012
http://centreville.patch.com/articles/life-savers-how-five-centreville-residents-saved-their-neighbors-from-a-fire#photo-10712446
Zoe Shankle, Al Hussein Ahmed Wanas, Ashley Osterday, Deborah Shankle and Said Benayed are the kind of people you want around in an emergency. Particularly when a fire breaks out.
On Thursday, the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department presented the five Centreville residents with Life Saving Awards, after the group worked together last month, "without due regard for their personal safety," to save two neighbors who were asleep inside their townhouse during a fire.
"It's not often we have citizens who are willing to do whatever it takes to help another person in distress," Deputy Chief James J. Walsh, A-Shift Operations Deputy, said as he presented the awards.
Over the past month, the full story of what happened has slowly unfolded. The fire started shortly before 4 p.m. on June 22nd, after an unknown passerby flicked smoking materials onto a mulch pile near a townhouse on Hoskins Hollow Circle in Centreville, according to Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department officials.
When the fire started, Wanas, 24, was outside his home. Newly arrived from Egypt, Wanas had just been blowing leaves and chatting with Said Benayed, 48, a Fairfax County employee. They had discovered they both knew Arabic. All of a sudden, they saw smoke from a nearby house.
Wanas ran inside to get his fiance, Zoe, 22, and her mother, Deborah, out of their house. Benayed called 9-1-1 and ran to the direction of the smoke. He was joined by Ashley Osterday, another neighbor, who had been working from home that day due to a recent knee injury. They saw fire coming from the home's backyard.
"We pounded on the door," Osterday recalled. "The fence was starting to catch on fire, so Said kicked the door in."
They were afraid people might be inside, but that first townhouse proved to be empty. They ran to the adjoining house. Once again, Benayed busted the door open.
Inside were two women, asleep. One, an elderly lady, was laying on a hospital bed. They woke up the women, but the elderly lady couldn't leave on her own. By this time, though, Deborah, Wanas and Zoe had run inside. Wanas and Zoe helped Benayed lift the woman, while Deborah brought the wheelchair over. Then Deborah ran outside to see if she could do anything to help save the property. But it was too far gone.
"The fence just suddenly collapsed and a wall of flame came toward me," said Deborah, who works as a kindergarten instructional assistant at Centreville Elementary School. So she went back out the front, while Osterday grabbed the women's Blue Beagle dog on her way out.
As they were leaving, they were assisted by Captain William Moreland, a public information officer in the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department. He was off-duty that day and happened to see the fire as he drove by. He called it in, and immediately drove to the house and suited up.
The two women were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Three of the five went to the hospital to be evaluated for smoke inhalation. The blaze caused $160,000 worth of damage and displaced eight people.
But there was no loss of life, thanks to the teamwork between the five neighbors. Much of it was instinctual.
"We weren't thinking. We were just taking action because the house was burning down," Wanas said.
"It's amazing what adrenaline will let you do," said Osterday. "Sometimes you just don't think."
While no one at the ceremony on Thursday ever expected to get an award for saving a life, it's probably safe to say that it's only the second-most important event in Zoe and Wanas' week.
They're getting married on Saturday.
From left to right: Deputy Chief James Walsh, Al Hussein Ahmed Wanas, Deborah Shankle, Said Benayed, Ashley Osterday, Zoe Shankle and Captain William Moreland. Credit MaryC.Stachyra
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Re: Witnesses, Off-Duty Fireman Rescue Two Women From Fire
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Date: July 21, 2012 08:33AM
we what do ya know.........
OUR HEROES!!
pretty cool, ppl. pretty cool :)
p.s. Ashley is HOT!!!
OUR HEROES!!
pretty cool, ppl. pretty cool :)
p.s. Ashley is HOT!!!
Re: Witnesses, Off-Duty Fireman Rescue Two Women From Fire
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TheTruth
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Date: July 22, 2012 11:36AM
Gordon Blvd Wrote:
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> we what do ya know.........
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> OUR HEROES!!
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> pretty cool, ppl. pretty cool :)
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> p.s. Ashley is HOT!!!
I heard Ashley puts out.
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> we what do ya know.........
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> OUR HEROES!!
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> pretty cool, ppl. pretty cool :)
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> p.s. Ashley is HOT!!!
I heard Ashley puts out.