It’s not often that local sports teams become local heroes in the most literal sense of the word, but the basketball team from Alaska’s Sitka High School became just that.
According to a report from The Alaska Dispatch News, the team was in Anchorage for the state tournament and saw an apartment complex on fire while en route to breakfast. They took action and, as a result, nobody was injured in the fire. All in all, because the players took initiative and banged on doors and windows to alert people, a dozen lives were saved.
Taft Drive Fire March 23, 2016…Sitka HS Basketball Team (pictured with one of the residents from the damaged structure, center) Photo by Coach Lee
Posted by The Anchorage Fire Department on Wednesday, March 23, 2016
And who says that sports heroes can’t be actual heroes? Under regular circumstances, the players and coach Andy Lee may have just called 911 to get the fire department to the scene, but they did more than that. Simply put, the bar for community outreach has been raised.
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*Featured Photo (above) credit to Coach Andy Lee
