
An Uber driver passed a building on fire while taking a passenger to the airport. He stopped to evacuate the residents
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Uber driver Fritz Sam is being hailed a "hero" by the company's CEO after he sprang into action and helped evacuate residents from a burning building in New York City.
Sam was driving his passenger, Jemimah Wei, through Brooklyn to the airport around 8 a.m. on Wednesday when they came across a four-story brownstone on Classon Avenue that was on fire, he told CNN.

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