Fire dept. says ‘gracias’ to heroic residents

The top brass at Burlington’s fire department were grateful enough to three area residents for their life-saving intervention that they made a point of saying it twice – first in English and later in Spanish.

The fire department delivered this bilingual commendation during a city council meeting on Tuesday to recognize the timely assistance that Delmar Bejarano, his wife Nilian Mejia, and their neighbor Rudis Hernandez rendered last month during a house fire along Oakcrest Court.

Burlington’s fire chief Matt Lawrence recalled that the trio sprung into action when they noticed a neighbor trapped inside the home when it caught fire on April 17…

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