A Glendale mail carrier was honored Thursday for his neighborhood heroics when he helped to fight a house fire during his mail delivery shift earlier this year.
Carrier Victor Castaneda, while working in the Verdugo Viejo neighborhood in February, noticed smoke rising from a rooftop on East California Avenue.
As the smoke thickened and flames began to race across the rooftop of the century-old duplex, Castaneda rushed over and grabbed a neighbor’s garden hose to try to help. During Thursday’s Postmaster General Hero Award ceremony, Castaneda said he just reacted when he saw the rooftop on fire.
“I just went and looked for a water hose to try to turn the fire out, and that’s it, nothing special,” he said.
