'Our guardian angel': Good Samaritan reunited with 11-month-old he saved from a house fire

CLEVELAND — On Monday, May 6, a house went up in flames on W. 102nd Street. Inside at the time, a mother and her twin 11-month-old girls. The smoke was so thick that Samantha James said she could barely see or breathe to get out.

"Thank God John was driving, he pulled over, got out and said Oh my God are you and the baby, okay?" said James. "A couple of minutes later, he came out holding my baby, that I thought I was never going to see again. Those moments I was thinking to myself, how am I going to have just one twin?" said James."That represents the core of what Cleveland is about. Sacrificing for each other, unselfish sacrifice, it is just totally amazing," said Chief Anthony Luke, Cleveland Division of Fire.

Three firefighters were injured, one of them stuck under the collapsed roof. After being released from the hospital, Firefighter Pete Mauric, a 5-year veteran of the department, is even more grateful to hear the babies are OK.

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