CAREGIVER SAVES TWO LIVES IN HOUSE BLAZE.Byline: Nicholas Grudin Staff Writer VAN NUYS - A live-in caregiver saved the lives of a Van Nuys couple early Saturday, dragging the 88-year-old woman from her burning home before rushing to the side of her incapacitated in·ca·pac·i·tate tr.v. in·ca·pac·i·tat·ed, in·ca·pac·i·tat·ing, in·ca·pac·i·tates 1. To deprive of strength or ability; disable. 2. To make legally ineligible; disqualify. husband. ``This man's heroic act saved two lives,'' said Los Angeles Fire Department The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), also known as the Los Angeles City Fire Department to distinguish it from the Los Angeles County Fire Department. It is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the city of Los Angeles. spokesman Brian Humphrey, describing the actions of Angel Medina Angel Medina (born 1970) is an American police officer and former professional wrestler of Puerto Rican extraction. He is perhaps best known for his appearances with Extreme Championship Wrestling in the late 1990s and early 2000s under the ring name Angel. . Medina, a home health care aide working for the pair, was awakened about 4:30 a.m. by a smoke alarm at the couple's home in the 6900 block of Colbath Avenue. After calling 911, Medina rushed to a back bedroom of the home and dragged the elderly woman from her burning bed, set afire Verb 1. set afire - set fire to; cause to start burning; "Lightening set fire to the forest" set ablaze, set aflame, set on fire combust, burn - cause to burn or combust; "The sun burned off the fog"; "We combust coal and other fossil fuels" by a short- circuit in a heating pad, Humphrey said. After placing the woman on the front lawn, Medina rushed back into the house and closed the door to the room where the fire was blazing. He then sat with the woman's incapacitated husband - a retired doctor too heavy for him to carry outside - until firefighters arrived and pulled the man from the smoke-filled house. The woman sustained second- and third-degree burns to one foot and her husband suffered smoke inhalation Smoke Inhalation Definition Smoke inhalation is breathing in the harmful gases, vapors, and particulate matter contained in smoke. Description Smoke inhalation typically occurs in victims or firefighters caught in structural fires. . The victims' names were not immediately available. The fire caused about $10,000 in damage to the house. It took 20 firefighters about 10 minutes to put it out. |
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