Video: Wake Forest mail carrier talks about saving packages from her burning truck

WAKE FOREST, N.C. (WNCN)  — A Wake Forest mail carrier went above and beyond to save packages from a fire last month.

Cellphone video captured her grabbing the packages from the back of her burning United States Postal Service truck.

“Now that I think about what I did, I’m like ‘wow’,” said mail carrier Araceli Santiago.

Despite a 911 dispatcher telling her to get away from the vehicle, Santiago kept taking the boxes out.

“I said ‘I hope I don’t get in trouble for that one’,” Santiago told CBS North Carolina. Read more

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