I Carried My Elderly Neighbor down Nine Flights During a Fire – Two Days Later, a Man Showed Up at My Door and Said, ‘You Did It on Purpose!’

He nodded too fast. “Are we going to lose everything?”

I looked around for the friendly face of Mrs. Lawrence and couldn’t find it.

“I don’t know.

Listen. I need you to stay here with the neighbors.”

His face changed. “Why?

Where are you going?”

It hit him instantly. “She can’t use the stairs.”

“The elevators are dead. She has no way out.”

His eyes filled.

“You can’t go back in there. Dad, it’s a fire.”

“I know. But I’m not leaving her.”

I put my hands on his shoulders.

“If something happened to you and nobody helped, I’d never forgive them. I can’t be that person.”

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