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Bodycam Footage Captures Middle Township Officers Rushing To Rescue Elderly Man, Woman From Burning House

CAPE MAY COUNTY, N.J. (CBS) -- Police bodycam video from Cape May County shows two Middle Township police officers rushing to save people from a burning home. On Saturday morning, the officers arrived at the scene before firefighters on Holly Drive in Rio Grande.

They found an unlocked sliding door and awoke an 83-year-old man and a 72-year-old woman and got them out safely.

The residents of a second-floor apartment had already gotten out safely.

The fire was started by a cigarette butt left on a second-floor deck.

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