A double amputee reunited with firefighters and healthcare professionals Tuesday to thank them for saving her life.
It was a reunion under very different circumstances.
Tuesday marked the first time Patricia Lewis had seen the heroic firefighters from the Lakeview Fire Department since they saved her life on April 10.
That's when a blaze destroyed her Rockville Centre home, where she was inside with her niece.
"As soon as she opened the door, we could see the orange glow and she said 'oh my god the basement is on fire,' we had to go and get out," Lewis said.
But first, Lewis had to put on her prosthetic legs.
Lewis, a former registered nurse at Mercy Medical Center in Rockville Centre, lost both of her legs due to complications from Type-II diabetes in 2018.