Firefighter Saves Tenant From Smoke

May 26, 2007 Connecticut - A Fire Department lieutenant saved a 40-year-old man overcome by smoke after his East Side apartment caught fire Thursday afternoon in what authorities described as a case of careless smoking. Lt. Paul Kochiss pulled Stewart Falson from his ninth-floor apartment in Tower II, 1491 Central Ave., after a lit match Falson dropped while smoking sparked a small fire at about 3:45 p.m., said provisional Assistant Fire Chief Chris Martin. Falson was semiconscious when firefighters ...