HEROIC ACTIONS: The Franklin Fire Department has identified Franklin Police Deputy Chief J.P. Taylor as one of the good…

HEROIC ACTIONS: The Franklin Fire Department has identified Franklin Police Deputy Chief J.P. Taylor as one of the good Samaritans who helped a couple escape a house fire on Lewisburg Avenue last week. The house belongs to former Franklin Mayor Lillian Stewart, who escaped the fire unharmed along with her husband. Taylor was driving to work at the time when he saw smoke and was advised over his police radio that it was coming from 201 Lewisburg Ave. When he pulled over to t…he residence, two women who were already on-scene told him people were still in the house. When he entered the house, he saw others already escorting a woman out of the back door. Another man, who Taylor does not know the name of but presumes was the next-door neighbor of the couple, told him that a man was still in his bedroom getting dressed. “I went to the back bedroom, and there was a gentleman getting his robe on and I told him, ‘Hey, the house is on fire. We need to get up and get out,’” Taylor recounted. “Then, I peeked out the back door because I knew the fire was in the back corner, right above the room he was in. I could see it was fully engulfed.” Taylor told the presumed neighbor to take the man out of the house through the front door while he scoured the residence to make sure everybody had gotten out. Despite his heroic actions, Taylor praised the people on-scene before him, saying that “what the other people did prior to me getting there was truly impressive because they were the ones that alerted them and got them up.” Read more in this Williamson Herald article: https://www.williamsonherald.com/…/article_b051b8b8-1127-11…