A Tewksbury police officer responded to a house fire on Mohawk Drive on Friday morning, leading the residents of the home to safety by himself before firefighters arrived.

A police officer entered a burning house on Mohawk Drive in the early hours on Friday to awaken the sleeping residents unaware of the blaze and to ensure their safe evacuation.

A Tewksbury police officer is being praised for helping residents safely evacuate from a house fire on Friday morning.

A police officer in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, is being praised after he helped evacuate residents from a burning home in the city early Friday morning. The Tewksbury Police Department says Officer Dennis Kelleher was on a nearby street when a fire was reported at 36 Mohawk Drive by a neighbor around 5:40 a.