Current Events > Young Amazon driver heroically rescues family from a burning building.

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An Amazon delivery driver is congratulated by a Long Island community for selflessly risking his life to help a family evacuate from their burning house. Syosset Long Island firefighters arrived at the house 4 hours after they got the 9/11 call, but to their relief the family was standing outside by the curb.

Minutes before, Kevin Rivera was finishing his Amazon delivery route when he saw the flames consuming the front of the house, yet despite the front door being wide open, it was clear the family inside didnt know what was going on.

I just saw the fire just getting bigger and bigger, Rivera said. I just rushed in, because I didnt want nobody to die in that house.

An interesting situation arose when, rushing in, he realized that not only did the family of 6 which included a baby, not know their house was burning down, but a language barrier made communication impossible.

Eventually he got the family to escape out of the back door. When the family finally saw the flames, they began to cry.

A neighbor who filmed the house told local news that everyone thanks Mr. Rivera an awful lot more than most Amazon delivery drivers would be accustomed to when he arrives with their packages.

Full Article: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/young-amazon-driver-hailed-a-hero-for-rescuing-family-from-a-burning-home/

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Reminds me of that bit in Spiderman 2 where Peter runs into a burning building to save some guy while firemen just look on

He probably got docked pay by Amazon for it, though.

Then probably got fired for being late with his packages.

fedex driver would've kicked the package through the front door and left

hope that was a rental

SSJ2GrimReaper posted...

fedex driver would've kicked the package through the front door and left

lol

Solar_Crimson posted...

He probably got docked pay by Amazon for it, though.

And then he went into debt for 6 figures when injured and then fired for missing a day of work

oh say can you see

Kloe_Rinz posted...

And then he went into debt for 6 figures when injured and then fired for missing a day of work

oh say can you see

damn

There was a similar story about a pizza delivery guy doing the same thing and his girlfriend starting a GoFundMe to help cover his hospital costs :( Iirc he actually went back in a second time when the kids (home by themselves) told them there was a toddler still inside - and jumped out a second story window cradling her against his chest because the stairs had become impassable.

Solar_Crimson posted...

He probably got docked pay by Amazon for it, though.

He didn't get docked pay, but he did get used as a propaganda piece on their workplace app for the workers to see how great working at Amazon is (and of course he got nothing extra for it)

Good to hear a heartwarming story.