Mike Gardella, a former Seymour resident and New York City firefighter, saved a woman from a fire in the Allerton section of the Bronx early Tuesday.
The fire was inside a garage that had been illegally converted into an apartment, according to WABC television in New York.
The fire took the life of a 71-year-old man.
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Gardella grew up in Seymour, is a graduate of Seymour High School and has extensive family ties in the Valley.
He now lives in the Bronx.
