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<\/a>CAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\nA UPS driver in Cape Coral rushed into a burning home on Southwest 12th Place to save a woman after hearing her cries for help, despite having no firefighting experience. <\/p>\n
“There was no doubt, I knew I had to do what I had to do,” Adam Cannon said. <\/p>\n
Cannon, who has been a UPS driver for over a decade, said he was delivering packages when he heard someone calling for help. <\/p>\n
“I walked up to deliver to the house, and I heard, you know, what sounded like somebody saying help!” Cannon said. <\/p>\n
When he approached the house, Cannon found an older woman inside who was unable to walk on her own. <\/p>\n
“When I got up to the house, I saw there was a older, sweet lady inside that you know, couldn’t really walk on her own,” Cannon said. <\/p>\n
Cannon brought the woman outside<\/a> to safety, away from the heat and smoke, and called 911. The Cape Coral Fire Department arrived minutes later and extinguished the fire. <\/p>\n Sadly, a cat and dog inside the home did not survive. <\/p>\n “I heard dog bark. I think he was. I tried calling out for him. Name is Diamond. And, but I don’t know if he was, you know, in a room or whatnot,” Cannon said. <\/p>\n For his actions, Cannon was awarded a community recognition coin by the Cape Coral Fire Department. <\/p>\n “I’m definitely not a firefighter, just a local UPS man,” Cannon said. <\/p>\n Reflecting on the experience, Cannon said he was grateful to have been there at the right time. <\/p>\n “God’s timing is perfect, man. That, for whatever reason, he had me at that point at that minute of the day. And, I’m glad I could be there to do it, because that’s, you never know,” Cannon said. <\/p>\n The city has deemed the home unsafe, with a red notice posted on the property. The Cape Coral Fire Department is still investigating the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202fGulf Coast News app<\/a>\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the Very Local Gulf Coast app<\/a> to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPS driver saves woman from burning Cape Coral home CAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2014 A UPS driver in Cape…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[124912,209,5681,211,21885,210,1827,104,124913,2387,6549,5052,213,13391,197,93491,221,192],"class_list":["post-296435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-adam-cannon","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-fire-department","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-home","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-dog","tag-entertainment","tag-firefighting-experience","tag-florida-home","tag-help","tag-house","tag-late-news","tag-minute","tag-sport","tag-ups-driver","tag-weather","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}