Neighbors Credit Firefighters for Saving Their Homes

What started out as a relaxing July 4 holiday for neighbors Carol Baker and Phil Logue of Woodbury turned into a nightmare as they watched firefighters battle a blaze at the Woodbury Post Office, which sat between their two homes.

Logue and Baker were in the back yards of their homes at a little after 6:30 p.m. when Logue's wife spotted smoke coming from the downstairs apartment of the post office building.

Around that same time, Logue said, a nurse had come to visit a bedridden female occupant on the first floor. Logue said the nurse also spotted the smoke and ran out to alert the neighbors,...