Christopher Lanski helped to rescue a woman from burning, Agawam, Massachusetts, March 20, 2018. The woman, 56, was in a second-floor apartment of a two-story house when fire broke out on an exterior landing adjacent to the apartment and spread inside. Lanski, 47, police officer, was dispatched to the home where he was alerted by bystanders at the scene that the woman was trapped inside. Lanski entered the home’s first floor and ascended stairs to the apartment’s door. Finding the door locked, Lanski kicked it several times, breaking it open. Heavy smoke issued from the apartment, and Lanski retreated twice to the stairwell before he returned to the doorway. Spotting the woman on the floor several feet away, he went to his hands and knees and crawled under heavy smoke to her. He grasped the woman’s wrist and dragged her back to the door where another officer joined him at the top of the stairs. Lanski and the other officer dragged the woman to the bottom of the stairs and outside. The woman was taken to the hospital for treatment of smoke inhalation and burns. Lanski suffered smoke exposure, and he recovered. 89828-10157
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