STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — On Oct. 25, 2024, Pennsylvania State Police Troopers Philip Buccigrossi III, a former resident of Woodrow, and Justin Yozsa responded to an apartment fire in Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania. The troopers knocked on every apartment door, waking all residents to alert them about the fire ripping through their building.
And, for safely escorting all the residents out of the building the pair received Pennsylvania’s 2024 Trooper of the Year Award last week at an award ceremony in Manheim, Pennsylvania for their heroic actions.
Back in October, Buccigrossi III and Yozsa received a 3 a.m. call about an apartment complex fire during their night shift. They were parked just a block away and immediately responded, arriving before local firefighters.
Yozsa and Buccigrossi III saved the lives of more than 50 residents and their pets by waking and evacuating them from the building while flames and smoke engulfed the structure…