In last week's News & Notes, USA Track & Field passed along this story about a group of heroic high school athletes, first reported by the Associated Press:

Four athletes ran from a high school track and field meet Thursday to successfully rescue an elderly woman from a burning home in West Philadelphia, according to the Associated Press.

Across the street from the competition between West Philadelphia and Germantown High black smoke was seen rising from a house by several shot putters, who hopped a fence and ran to the scene. Germantown team member Dwyne Hall says the athletes heard a woman yelling for help when they got to the house and found her on the first floor. She was trying to go upstairs to find her kittens. He says three athletes from Germantown and one from West Philadelphia talked her out of it and guided her outside.

Hall says the woman was wearing only undergarments, so one boy gave her his sweat pants and another his sweat shirt.