A True Heroine: Brooklyn girl, 11, rescues 3-year-old brother from fire
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An 11-year-old Brooklyn girl is credited with rescuing her 3-year-old brother from their burning building.
She tossed him from a fire escape into the arms of neighbors below.
NBC New York says Janixia Soto alerted her mom and brother, Walter, on Thursday as smoke from a ground floor fire filled the apartments above.
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View MoreNew York City’s most populous borough, Brooklyn, is home to nearly 2.6 million residents. If Brooklyn were an independent city it would be the fourth largest city in the United States. While Brooklyn has become the epitome of ‘cool and hip’ in recent years, for those that were born here, raised families here and improved communities over the years, Brooklyn has never been ‘uncool’.