4 Barnstable Cops Honored For Saving Elderly Woman's Life In Fire

BARNSTABLE, MA — State and local officials held a ceremony Friday honoring four Barnstable police offers who saved an elderly woman's life in a Centerville fire last month.

Officers Marcus Cunningham, Nelson Souve, Gustavo Eloy and Michael Lima were presented with citations regarding for their actions on Feb. 2 at a house fire on Shootflying Hill Road.

Emergency crews first became aware of the fire around 3:20 a.m., when a newspaper delivery person reported a single family home in flames When police arrived, Cunningham and Souve went inside the home and found an unconscious 69-year-old woman on the kitchen floor.

Police said the two officers carried the woman out of the house and began to tend to her medical needs, along with Lima and Eloy. The four officers then moved the woman across the street due to the heat and heavy smoke that was pouring out of the home, making it difficult for them to treat her. The officers continued with rescue breaths to the unconscious woman until the Centerville-Osterville-Marstons Mills Fire Department arrived on scene and took over her care.

Fire officials said the woman was taken to a Boston hospital and was in serious condition. But the actions taken by the four officers saved her life.