BOSTON — A Dorchester woman is alive after jumping from the second floor of her home after encouragement from a Good Samaritan during a fire.
Edwin Julia said he’s a gutter contractor who happened to be on Capen Place in Dorchester Wednesday morning when the flames began. That’s when he realized someone was inside.
“I'm not looking for no praise or nothing. I'm just glad I was here at the right time,” he told FOX25. “I seen a lady in the second floor window just screaming for help.”
Julia was able to convince the woman he would be there below when she jumped.
“I told her ‘come out the window, break the screen.’ So she broke the screen and she jumped on the little porch that was their roof and I told her to jump. It's about an 8 foot, 10 foot jump. I said ‘jump I'll break your fall.’ So she was brave, God bless her she was a brave woman,” Julia said.
It turns out that the woman’s son is a Boston firefighter and was on his way to the call before he even realized it was his mother’s home.
“So that had to be hard, to come up and see your house on fire and your mom. But we want to just say thank God that she's alive because the house is replaceable,” neighbor Leslie Milton said.
Julia says both he and the woman are doing OK. She was able to walk afterwards, but was taken to the hospital with her son was by her side.