Paul Pereira, @UPS driver & @MAStateLottery #HeroAMongUs went above and beyond. He saved a family from a home fire. pic.twitter.com/VXpDPCLpXv
— Boston Celtics (@celtics) May 3, 2017
MANCHESTER, N.H. — A UPS driver who doused a house fire with a garden hose last month was lauded May 2 at the Boston Celtics playoff game, one of the many honors the Manchester resident has recently received.
Paul Pereira, 44, was on the last delivery on April 10 in Haverhill, Mass., when he saw a strange glow from a house.
He banged on the door of the house, he said, alerting the two residents. He eventually took a hose to the fire, which had spread from a whicker table to the exeterior wall of the porch. A video taken by a neighbor shows Pereira asking if a resident’s mother is in the house, then standing beside the fire and extinguishing it.
UPS ranks No. 1 on the Transport Topics Top 100 list of the largest U.S. and Canadian for-hire carriers.
“I did my best. When I was doing it, I didn’t think it was a big deal. Then I saw the video,” Pereira said.
The video can be viewed below:
| By Mark Hayward The New Hampshire Union Leader, Manchester |
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