Six Rutgers University-Camden students saved the life of a 90-year-old man late Friday evening after a fire broke out in his duplex.

students rush in building to save old man from fire
Photo credit: Jonathan E. Perez-Gaytan

Tammy Meneses and Vanessa Solis-Palma were heading home from a friend’s apartment near campus when they noticed the smell of smoke. Then they saw flames erupting from a window of a duplex a block away.

Meneses, 22, immediately called the four friends she and Solis-Palma were just with and all six students ran toward the three story duplex. The students screamed, rattled fences and desperately banged on windows.

“I wasn’t really thinking. I just broke the front door glass,” Matteo Resanovic told…