Boy saves girl, baby from burning house

_{By Gabriel L. Cardinoza}

YOUNG HERO -- Pangasinan Gov. Ramon Guico 3rd (left) poses with 14-year-old Leonard Sambrano (2nd from left) after commending him for saving a 5-month old baby girl and her 8-year-old sister from a raging fire in Mangatarem, Pangasinan last week. Also in photo are Mangatarem Councilor Harley Paragas and Torres Bugallon Barangay Captain Lou de Guzman (right). – Gabriel Cardinoza photo

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan -- _{Gov. Ramon Guico 3rd on Monday commended a 14-year-old boy for bravely saving a 5-month-old baby girl and her 8-year-old sister from a raging fire in Mangatarem town last week.
    During the regular flag-raising ceremony at the provincial Capitol here, Guico said what Leonard Sambrano did was "a good basis for people to gauge level of service that government officials can give their constituents."
    Sambrano was on his way to play with friends in Barangay Maravilla that afternoon when he noticed fire engulfing second floor of a house.
    Without hesitation, Sambrano entered the house and saw an infant sleeping and a girl playing with her mobile phone.
    He picked up the sleeping baby, held the girl’s arms and brought them out of the burning house.
    After handing the baby to a relative, Sambrano went to another burning house and helped a man pull his motorcycle to safety.
    Four houses, made mostly of light materials, were razed in the village that day.
No one was reported injured.
    The baby and her sister were left by their mother, Cerlyn Espiritu, to the care of an aunt because she had to take another child to the neighboring village for an anti-rabies shot.
    But the aunt, Marilyn Domaquita, had to go somewhere else so she left the two children to the care of a nephew.
    Sambrano said the fire grew big so fast that by the time firefighters arrived in their village, the houses could no longer be saved.}