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November 10th, 2008, 04:05 PM
Marines Save Lives as Fire Destroys O.C. Motel
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November 10, 2008
LAKE FOREST -- Six off-duty Marines are being credited with saving lives after fire ripped through a motel in Lake Forest.
The Marines, who happened to be staying at the Americas Best Value Inn, spotted flames and smoke just before 8 a.m. Sunday.
Marine Pvt. Colton Oliver, Pvt. Josh Hernandez and Pvt. 1st Class Thomas O'Brien woke sleeping guests by banging on doors and shouting for residents to get out of the burning building.
Hernandez carried one elderly man to safety. After the fire the man was treated with oxygen.
Amy Amadito-Phelps, who was in a room on the second-floor, said that she and her husband and 14-month-old son might have died if not for the Marines.
"We were right next to a room completely on fire and we couldn't smell smoke," she said. "No fire alarms were going off. The only thing we heard was
Marines banging on our windows and telling us to get out."
http://www.ktla.com/landing_topstories/?Marines-Save-Lives-as-Fire-Destroys-OC-M=1&blockID=130108&feedID=1198
Something Extraordinarily nice to read for a change our Marines BRAVO
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November 10, 2008
LAKE FOREST -- Six off-duty Marines are being credited with saving lives after fire ripped through a motel in Lake Forest.
The Marines, who happened to be staying at the Americas Best Value Inn, spotted flames and smoke just before 8 a.m. Sunday.
Marine Pvt. Colton Oliver, Pvt. Josh Hernandez and Pvt. 1st Class Thomas O'Brien woke sleeping guests by banging on doors and shouting for residents to get out of the burning building.
Hernandez carried one elderly man to safety. After the fire the man was treated with oxygen.
Amy Amadito-Phelps, who was in a room on the second-floor, said that she and her husband and 14-month-old son might have died if not for the Marines.
"We were right next to a room completely on fire and we couldn't smell smoke," she said. "No fire alarms were going off. The only thing we heard was
Marines banging on our windows and telling us to get out."
http://www.ktla.com/landing_topstories/?Marines-Save-Lives-as-Fire-Destroys-OC-M=1&blockID=130108&feedID=1198
Something Extraordinarily nice to read for a change our Marines BRAVO