Rescue in Portland

PORTLAND >> Two people are recovering and a local firefighter was treated for injuries after a house fire late Sunday night, but the town’s fire chief says the outcome would have been much different if not for a quick rescue by that firefighter.

Firefighter Pete Sulinski lives within a half-mile of the fire scene at 26 Tuccitto Road, a tiny Cape built in 1954 located off Route 66, and was one of the first people on the scene of the reported basement fire around 11:30 p.m. Sunday, Chief Robert Shea said in a phone interview Tuesday.

When he arrived, Sulinski was confronted by a “panicked” man who told him that a woman had gone back into the house and had not come out. Sulinski rushed into the house without his protective gear and quickly grabbed the woman, who had collapsed on a staircase leading to the home’s basement.

Shea said…