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Newark Mayor Cory Booker Saves Neighbor from Fire

Source: New Jersey Star-Ledger | Newark, N.J. | April 13, 2012

Newark Mayor Cory Booker was taken to a hospital for treatment of smoke inhalation he suffered trying to rescue his next-door neighbors from their burning house. "I just grabbed her and whipped her out of the bed," Booker said in recounting the fire. Booker said he suffered second-degree burns on his hand.

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