A local boxer walking home from practice Feb. 25 may have saved a life in the fatal fire that killed three last week.
Bibo Aguilar, a 21-year-old Muscatine man, was walking home from practice at the Muscatine County Boxing Club when he smelled something and investigated.
“That right there is something that needs to be recognized,” Mike Hartman, Assistant Fire Chief for the Muscatine Fire Department said in a release by the city Wednesday evening. “There are just so many people that just wouldn’t care. He found the house, found the house on fire, and called 911 to report the fire.”
Hartman said that after listening to the 911 tape that it seems Aguilar and the dispatcher agreed to have Aguilar yell at the people in the house and tell them to get out however they can and however they could.