Striking teachers drop picket signs to rescue people from fire

AMBRIDGE, Pennsylvania – Five striking teachers are being praised for their quick action after spotting a house fire in Ambridge, Pennsylvania. The teachers were picketing in front of a school Thursday near Pittsburgh, when a fire broke out in a house across the street, authorities said. “A lady … started shouting, ‘Call 911!’,” Paul Hladio, one of the teachers told CNN affiliate WTAE. That’s when the teachers dropped their pickets signs and sprang into