SHREWSBURY, Mass. (WBZ) – A Massachusetts mail carrier proved that not all heroes wear capes.
He is being credited for possibly saving lives after he spotted a fire on his route in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, and quickly jumped into action.
It was not an ordinary morning on the postal route for mail carrier Pjerin Kita.
“I tried to be calm and do the job,” he said.
Kita saw smoke, a home’s vinyl siding on fire and flames coming from a recycling bin and sprang into action to move it.
Sisters Sharon and Cheryl Collaro were inside calling for help.
“He picked it up with his two hands. Flames coming out of everywhere and he threw it in the backyard. He saved our lives,” Sharon Collaro said.
Firefighters are not sure exactly what ignited the fire in the recycling bin.
“The smell of the smoke started coming in. All plastic burning smell that I can still taste it in my throat. It just was the scariest thing I’ve ever been through in my life,” Sharon Collaro said.
Before firefighters arrived, Kita was able to pour water on the bin from an outside bucket fortunately filled with rainwater to stop the fire from spreading anymore.
Firefighters then tackled the still-smoldering siding.
“I feel like I had to do it, like nobody was there. Nobody was around,” Kita said.
The fire chief is giving Kita all the credit.
“It was great that he stepped up and was in the right place at the right time,” Shrewsbury Fire Chief Seth Colby said.
The sisters said they have a gift of thanks for their mail carrier on his next delivery, but Kita refuses to be called a hero.
“No, I don’t feel like a hero. I did what I was supposed to do,” he said.
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