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Students raise their hands in front of a banner thanking Kevin and Ryan Menapace during an assembly held to honor the Menapaces at Lincoln Elementary Friday. The two men rescued two Lincoln students and their sibling from their burning home Aug. 7. — © 2009 Gallup Independent / Cable Hoover

Copyright © 2009
Gallup Independent
By Bill Donovan
Independent correspondent

GALLUP — Students at Lincoln Elementary took a couple of minutes out during their first assembly on Friday to honor two heroes who saved two of the school’s students in a recent fire.

Kevin and Ryan Menapace, standing beside Tito and Isaac Bustinza — the two students they helped save from the fire — smiled as the entire student body sat in the school’s gymnasium.

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