BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT
Daily Post Staff Writer
A painter pulled a woman out of her burning house in Midtown Palo Alto today (April 20).
Salvador Bolanos, of San Jose, said he was painting inside the garage at 3137 David Court around 12:30 p.m. when he heard a woman screaming.
Bolanos said he went inside and found the woman trying to put out a fire in the bedroom that was burning the mattress. He grabbed a bucket and tried to dump water on the flames, but they kept growing.
“I told the lady, ‘Let’s go, let’s go out,’” he said in an interview. “She was freaked out. She could not even move, so I had to pull her out to the back of the house.”
Another man evacuated on his own and left in an ambulance. Eight fire engines and at least seven police officers responded. Firefighters attacked the fire with hoses and tools from the side yard and roof. Their operation started winding down around 1:30 p.m.
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