CBSDFW.COM<\/a>) \u2013<\/strong> A mother says she has a maintenance worker to thank for saving the lives of her family.<\/p>\nAmarisa Maturo, her two boys and their grandmother were trapped on the balcony of their apartment during a Thursday night fire. She screamed out for help as she contemplated one of the toughest decisions of her life.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was literally just going to drop them [down], because I figured broken bones are better than burning alive,\u201d the mother says.<\/p>\n
Neighbors alerted Pedro Roa, the maintenance worker at the Ambassador Apartments, and he raced to help.<\/p>\n
\u201cHey somebody help me, somebody help me! Save my kids!,\u201d Pedro recalls hearing the mother yell out.<\/p>\n
He did not hesitate; climbing the fence just beneath the balcony to pull every one of Maturo\u2019s family members down to safety.<\/p>\n
CBS 11 was there as the family returned to pick up what few belongings were salvageable. Standing in front of her charred apartment, Maturo, thanked Roa and called him a real life super hero.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy babies don\u2019t have a scratch. They just have a memory of a super hero man who saved their lives,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The close call was not lost on her 6 year old son Jonathan.<\/p>\n
\u201cA man was helping us get down. We almost died,\u201d said the child the night of the fire.<\/p>\n
Maturo and her family, have unfortunately been here before. They lost everything in flood, and only six months ago, they were living in a shelter. The family had just started settling in when a fire in a neighboring unit, destroyed her apartment and 7 others.<\/p>\n
They smiled as they discovered small items, like birth certificates and Halloween costumes that had been spared.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything important survived! It made it. All her legal documents, made it!,\u201d said Jacqueline Reed, Maturo\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n
Despite having lost most of their material possessions, they remain hopeful.<\/p>\n
Maturo says the children will go trick-or-treating on Halloween as she plans their next step.<\/p>\n
The Red Cross is helping a total of 18 people displaced by the fire including Maturo\u2019s family.<\/p>\n
Watch the report HERE\u203a\u203a<\/a><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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