14 year old uses ladder to rescue Pa. woman from fire

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A 74-year-old Pennsylvania woman is crediting her 14-year-old neighbor with saving her from a burning house -- by using a rickety ladder.

"I'm grateful to be alive," said Charlene McMasters from her hospital bed on Wednesday. "It was quite an ordeal."

New Castle Assistant Fire Chief David Joseph commended Justin Ritchie's quick thinking, calling the hero "humble and quiet."

"Even when he was telling me about it, he was shaken and rattled," Joseph said, adding, "The more I listened to the story unfold, the better it got."


More: http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/23/8979102-grateful-to-be-alive-teen-uses-ladder-to-rescue-pa-woman-from-fire

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1. I watched it on Channel 2 out of Pgh tonight. If you had seen that 'ladder' you would have laughed.

But it saved her life even though it broke under her weight. That young man is a hero of the first class.