Crime & Safety
Boston Man Hailed A Hero For Rescuing Blind Woman From Apartment Fire
The frightened woman was combative in the face of danger, but Socrate Joseph says he had to take matters into his own hands.
Updated on: June 5, 2025
An early morning fire at an apartment building on Tremont Street in Roxbury could have had a tragic outcome if not for a quick-thinking neighbor being called a hero. It started in a second-floor apartment where 79-year-old Geneva Fuller woke to smell smoke.
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"She's blind, so she really didn't know what was going on. She had to go by her senses of hearing and smelling," said her son Keith Patterson.
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Socrate Joseph carried a blind woman out of an apartment building on fire in Roxbury/CBS Boston
The frightened woman was combative in the face of danger, but Socrate Joseph says he had to take matters into his own hands.
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