WATCH: Lancaster Township firefighter receives community hero award in New York City | Local News [Video]

It’s National First Responders Day, and a Lancaster Township volunteer firefighter is being recognized with a national award for her actions that ultimately saved a 9-year-old girl’s life.

The First Responders Children’s Foundation will present firefighter Katie Remely with a Community Hero Award during a ceremony at Times Square in New York City this morning. The organization supports children who have lost a parent working as a first responder.

The event begins at 10 a.m. Watch a livestream of the event below. Those using LancasterOnline’s app can view the livestream at https://lanc.news/firefighteraward.

Remley and her fellow firefighters responded to a fire in February at a building on Rosedale Avenue, which contains the Bausman Post Office and two apartments,

Fire had spread to a wooden deck, trapping a father and daughter in one of the apartments.

As the crew fought the fire from the outside, Remley pushed her way inside to search for the trapped occupants. Crawling through the superheated smoke in her breathing apparatus, Remley found …