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Though it's, MSM-wise, only in the Daily Mail and was originally reported by something called DNAinfo.com, this story seems legit. "There are heroes all around us all the time," as POTUS said in Joplin MO after the deadly tornado.
'He looked like he was preparing to die': Young father hailed a hero after wading into flood water to save drowning cab driver (Daily Mail)
'He looked like he was preparing to die': Young father hailed a hero after wading into flood water to save drowning cab driver (Daily Mail)
much more, along with pictures, at link aboveAs Hurricane Sandy's flood waters rose higher and higher around a stranded New York taxi cab on Monday night its, driver appeared helpless against the 14-foot storm surge that grew to his chin.
But offering a final moment of mercy, witnesses watched as 25-year-old Jon Candelaria selflessly left his Upper East Side apartment to reach the man trapped in the churning water and wind.
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Standing at 6-feet-5, the East River’s water had swept up to Mr Candelaria's chest as he waded out to the vehicle he had spotted from his seventh floor apartment.
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Dipping into the water he estimated feeling like 40-degrees, Mr Candelaria said it didn't take long for the water to rise.
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‘I remember him when he was just a baby in the carriage,’ Rose Bergin a resident of Mr Candelaria’s building told DNA Info. ‘Now he's a hero who grew up right here in public housing.’
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‘I'm not a hero,’ Mr Candelaria said. ‘What was I supposed to do? Sit at home and watch a man drown and take pictures to post on Facebook? … That's not me.’
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