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Pa. FF recognized by first responders foundation with national award in NYC

Firefighter Katie Remley crawled through superheated smoke to rescue a father and daughter trapped in a Lancaster Township blaze

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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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Congress designated Oct. 28 as National First Responders Day in 2017. The day honors the firefighters, police officers, paramedics, EMTs and 911 operators who answer the call when a crisis arises, often putting their own lives on the line. Serving as a national day of gratitude, National First Responders Day pays tribute to their services to their communities and honors fallen first responders. National First Responders Day is also a call for action to support first responders.
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