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High school students leave graduation to put out fire at their classmate's house

. A group of high schoolers in Long Island, New York, traded their graduation robes for firefighter gear last week when a fire broke out near their school. The Port Jefferson High School students had just walked across the stage to receive their diplomas and were taking photos with their families after the ceremony when they were alerted to a nearby fire. Immediately, the teens—identified by their principal, Eric Haruthunian, as Ryan Parmegiani, Kasumi Layne-Stasik, Hunter Volpi, Andrew Patterson, Shane Hartig and Peter Rizzo—dropped what they were doing and rushed to the Port Jefferson Fire Department firehouse to help with the fire. . According to Good Morning America, the youngsters—who are all said to be either 17 or 18 years old—are volunteers with the Port Jefferson Fire Department. "We were still in our gowns, and we still had our diplomas with us and we stripped off our gowns. I didn't even realize I still had my tie on," said Rizzo, 17. What made their heroic act ...



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