He calls Fenelon Falls home, but he's a hero in Sutton thanks to his life-saving quick-thinking this past weekend.
According to the Toronto Star, 21-year-old James Slatcher was tossing around a basketball with a friend outside of his sister's townhouse complex in Sutton in the early hours of Monday morning.
Shortly after 2 a.m., he smelled something burning and noticed smoke.
"My first thought was to get my sister, my nephew and my niece out," he tells YorkRegion.com.
Then Slatcher ran back into the building, pulling the fire alarm before knocking on each of the 36 units, waking up residents and alerting them of the fire.
"I wasn't really thinking. I was just getting as many people out as I could," Slatcher told The Star.
"It took a lot of guts," Sergeant Kevin Smith of York Regional Police's 3 District headquarters told YorkRegion.com. "He did a good thing with no concern to his own welfare."
Slatcher has been hailed a hero by the community, especially by the residents whose lives he saved.
"He actually saved our lives by coming and knocking on the door and telling us," fire victim Julie Grainger told CTV.
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