Meals on Wheels volunteer helps residents get to safety during Chesapeake apartment fire

CHESAPEAKE, VA. (WAVY) – Lisa Woodley was delivering meals in Chesapeake when she noticed smoke coming out of a resident’s window.

Woodley has been delivering meals with Meals on Wheels for six years now. On Monday, she was making deliveries to residents at Starling Village apartments, a 55+ community off South Military Highway. That’s when she noticed a fire that had started in a resident’s apartment.

“I went upstairs to the second floor and was rolling my cart and I looked up and there was a fire,” said Woodley, “it was a lot of smoke.”

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Woodley immediately began knocking on doors and alerting residents about the fire.  She even helped a few of them get to safety as the flames engulfed a couch in one of the homes…

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