RP maid given hero's welcome<\/p>\n
MANILA (AFP): A Filipina maid who saved her three Singaporean
\nwards, including an infant, from a Christmas day fire in the
\nisland-state arrived to a hero's welcome in the Philippines
\nyesterday.<\/p>\n
Zenaida Ricarte, 20, was greeted at the airport by a
\nPhilippine Air Force band and top officials of the Labor
\nDepartment and Philippine National Bank (PNB), which sponsored
\nnewspaper advertisements extolling her \"heroism.\"<\/p>\n
Ricarte rushed into a burning building last Christmas day to
\nsave her three wards trapped on the 16th floor. News reports here
\nsaid she had just arrived from a dinner with friends when she saw
\nthe 25-story building ablaze. She said her employers had told her
\nnot to go into the building.<\/p>\n
\"But she did not mind her own safety and risked her life to
\nsave her three wards from instant death,\" the advertisements
\nsaid.<\/p>",
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