UBER DRIVER RESCUE IN BURNING
BUILDING
"Can we stop and help?"
Fritz Sam started his day driving an Uber in New York City, just as he had for the past seven years. But moments into his second ride, his morning took a terrifying turn.
Suddenly, he found himself sprinting toward a burning building.
He had picked up a passenger, Jemimah James Wei, around 8
a.m. in Brooklyn on Wednesday. She was headed to LaGuardia Airport to catch a 10 a.m. flight to Vermont.
“Five minutes into the ride, we’re passing this block and I noticed that there’s some activity going on in front of a brownstone,” recalled Sam, 54.
“I realized it was a fire.”
As he approached the home, he saw that a second-floor window was completely engulfed in
flames.
Although his passenger had a flight to catch, Sam turned to her and asked: “Can we stop and help?”
“Obviously!” Wei, 29, told him. They darted toward the commotion, and “flames were shooting out of the building. There were glass shards everywhere...READ MORE