A few days ago, Jason blogged about the Houston METRO officer who saved a woman who was about to have an unfortunate encounter with a train.
As it turns out, officer Eliot Swainson was one busy guy helping save D.C. residents:
Less than 24 hours after saving a woman who fell in front of a Washington subway train, a Houston, Texas, transit cop was at it again.
Moments after leaving an interview Wednesday about his heroics at the train station, Houston Metro Officer Eliot Swainson helped victims escape an early morning fire at a Washington row house.
Swainson, who was deputized to help with crowds at President Obama’s inauguration, and two Washington transit officers noticed smoke pouring from the row house in northwest Washington.
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“We just pounded on doors and stuff,” he said. “We couldn’t get into the unit that was actually burned — there was just too much smoke coming out of there.”
D.C. residents are surely thankful for Officer Swainson’s assistance.
Now if you don’t mind, we’d like him back, thanks! He’s a man who’s much too useful to be in D.C. We’ll happily trade you Queen Sheila and other useless pols.
