MONTREAL – Two young West Island men will be honoured in the Sun Youth’s Good Samaritan Fund ceremony Wednesday.
The selfless actions of 19-year-old Giancarlo Torino and 20-year-old Andrei Odorico saved a young boy and a handicapped man caught in a Pointe Claire apartment fire in November.
“They deserve to be recognized,” said Helio Galego, Sun Youth’s director of crime prevention and victim services. “They were heroes that night.”
The two young men lived in the Pointe-Claire apartment building that was engulfed in flames and evacuated in early morning hours of November 5th.
They re-entered the burning apartment building on St Jean Boulevard in an attempt to save a woman they had seen on a third-floor balcony and who had told them that she was trapped.
Thick smoke and flames prevented the two men from getting to Carolin Boghosian and her 14-year-old son Raz Soukiassian, the fire’s two victims.
However, the they did manage to save the woman’s 11-year-old son, as well as a man who was trapped on the second floor in a wheelchair.
Torino and Odorico will receive Good Samaritan citations from Sun Youth and a $500 gift certificate to a store of their choice.
Sun Youth’s Good Samaritan Fund was created in 2001 to honour citizens who “go the extra mile.”
To date, 44 individuals have received the citation.
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