New Jersey mayor saves neighbor from burning home

Mayor Cory Booker of Newark, New Jersey saved a trapped woman from a burning building on Thursday night, an act of bravery that got him sent to the hospital. Booker was returning to his home when he saw flames shooting out of a second-floor kitchen window in the building next to his house. Along with three Newark police detectives, Booker rushed into the building, according to Newark Fire Director Fateen Ziyad. The mayor pushed himself into the smokey residence and found the woman in a bedroom and got her out safely, with the assistance of the detectives.

Booker tweeted about the incident on Twitter saying, “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.” The woman is in stable condition and Booker injured his right hand. “Thanks everyone, my injuries were relatively minor. Thanks to Det. Alex Rodriguez who helped get all of the people out of the house,” the mayor wrote on Twitter.