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After a fire tore through a mobile home in Oak Lawn early Monday morning, two employees from nearby Domino’s Pizza ran to help an 8-year-old boy escape the flames.
“We saw the trailer on fire and the father and his son were trying to get another son out through the trailer,” Naser Khanfar said. “The father and I broke the windows to help take the boy outside.”
Khanfar and his co-worker, Sara Jones, were closing up the store when they spotted flames rising from a trailer across the street at the Airway Mobile Home Community, at 90th Street and South Cicero Avenue. Khanfar said he often helped others in need in his home country of Jordan and has continued that practice since moving to Hickory Hills while working to obtain citizenship.
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