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Cory Booker Saves Woman in Fire

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Taken to hospital for smoke inhalation.

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First Ryan Gosling, now Cory Booker—famous folks are doing it all lately. The Newark mayor returned home late Thursday night to find the two-story building next door to his home in flames, so he rushed in with his three-man security detail in tow and rescued a woman out of the house. "I just grabbed her and whipped her out of the bed," Booker said. He was taken to hospital and treated for smoke inhalation and second-degree burns on his hand; the woman is in stable condition, and his security detail has been hospitalized, too.

Read it at New Jersey Star-Ledger

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