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NEW YORK — It’s National First Responders Day, and a Lancaster Township volunteer firefighter is being recognized with a national award for her actions that ultimately saved a 9-year-old girl’s life.
The First Responders Children’s Foundation will present firefighter Katie Remley with a Community Hero Award during a ceremony at Times Square in New York City this morning. The organization supports children who have lost a parent working as a first responder.
Firefighter Katie Remley’s presentation begins at the 1:10:25 mark.
Remley and her fellow firefighters responded to a fire in February at a building on Rosedale Avenue, which contains the Bausman Post Office and two apartments.
Fire had spread to a wooden deck, trapping a father and daughter in one of the apartments.
As the crew fought the fire from the outside, Remley pushed her way inside to search for the trapped occupants. Crawling through the superheated smoke in her breathing apparatus, Remley found the girl in a hallway with her father lying on the ground nearby. Remley called for support and firefighters from Lancaster city helped remove them from the building.
The girl survived, but her father, Nathaniel Holmes, 45, was declared dead when he reached the hospital.
The Bausman post office was supposed to reopen this fall, but officials say the reopening has been pushed back to sometime in 2025.
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