Breakfast Beer Run in Brooklyn Turns Heroic

Yesterday morning, a fire broke out in Fort Greene apartment, where seven family members lived. The NY Post reports three relatives - a father and his two sons - were saved by a "Brooklyn vagrant on a breakfast beer run."

Dubbed "SUPERTRAMP" in the headline, Andre Nash had just bought two cans of beer when a boy was asking for help and pointing to the the 11th floor of a building at the Lafayette Gardens housing project on DeKalb Avenue. Using a "beer-soaked rag as a mask," Nash, who usually sleeps on a bench, helped guide Terence Taylor and sons to safety.

Firefighters helped save three other family members (Taylor's stepdaughter, her boyfriend, and their baby son), but were unable to save Taylor's wife, Geraldine, who went into cardiac arrest and later died at a hospital. The FDNY is investigating the cause of the fire.