PORT HADLOCK — Jim Myers says he doesn’t want to be called a hero.
In fact, the retired police officer and part-time security guard says anybody could have helped a screaming single mom and her children get out of a burning apartment building early Monday.
After all, he said, he just happened to be driving by at about 2:45 a.m. when he saw smoke blowing across the street from 50 Old Hadlock Road.
“I may have helped her save her own life,” said Myers, who served with the Mercer Island Police Department for 26 years. “The fact that she didn’t get panicky and followed the instructions I gave her, she saved her own life.”
Victims of the fire reported that a middle-aged man who was driving a white van stood outside of their apartments, honked his horn and yelled “fire.”
Laura Roberts, who lived in one of the fourplex’s units, said she would like to thank the man who guided her from the burning home and “saved” her and her children’s lives.
Myers is that man.
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