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Newark, NJ 4/13/12 Newark Mayor Cory Booker arrived home to find the house next door on fire. Booker and two of his security detail entered the home to help its residents escape. There were no emergency responders present at the time, but Booker rescued one woman who was taken to the hospital. Booker told reporters that he feared for his life as the kitchen erupted in the flames and he couldn't find the woman until she called out. Booker said he could hear, "I'm here, I'm here, help I'm here." He grabbed her from a bed and threw her over his shoulder. "I punched through the kitchen and the flames and that's when I saw Detective Rodriguez. He grabbed her as well and we got her down the stairs and we both just collapsed outside," Booker said. Booker says he didn't feel brave, but did feel terrified as he dashed through flames with the woman over his shoulder. He described the rescue as a "come to Jesus moment." He couldn't breathe after he got outside, he said. "I felt fear. I really didn't think we were going to get out of there," the 42-year-old mayor said it was very difficult to breathe as he looked for the woman, whose mother had screamed she was still trapped inside the burning house.

His security detail tried to drag him away, but Booker told them that the woman was going to die, Detective Alex Rodriguez said. Booker said as he struggled to find the woman, he feared that he might die also. Honestly it was terrifying and to look back and see nothing but flames and to look in front of you and see nothing but blackness," Booker said. The mayor said he now has an even more profound respect for firefighters.

The mayor was also taken to the hospital suffering from smoke inhalation and second-degree burns on his right hand. He was treated and released. He followed her “voice,” he saw "sparks flying everywhere." When he reached the room where the woman was, it was totally in flames. Well, he picked her up over his shoulder, carried her as these burning embers were falling from the ceiling, burning her back and burning his hand. Mayor Booker saw a house in flames, but when he heard the screams of a mother saying her daughter was still inside the burning house, Mayor Booker saw the need and took action and did so against others trying to hold him back. Wow what an exciting story. Wait, what if that had been you or I, would we have done the same? We'll never know what you and I would have done, but the child of God will be faced with a similar situation. Jude said it like this.

Jude 1:20-23

But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,

[21] Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

[22] And of some have compassion, making a difference:

[23] And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.

Mayor Booker made a difference; he had compassion for his neighbor to the point of running into a burning house after her. Do you and I have compassion for those that don't know where they will spend eternity? Do we have enough compassion for those others have forgotten? Jude said that there are only going to be "some" that have compassion and there are only going to "some" that make a difference. Merriam Webster says the word some means being unknown, undetermined. We must be people of action making decisions to reach those who otherwise will not be reached. We need to ask ourselves "am I a person of action?"