 Booker gained national attention when , on December 28 , 2010 , a constituent used Twitter to ask him to send someone to her father 's house to shovel his driveway because her elderly father was going to attempt to do it himself . Booker responded by tweeting , " I will do it myself ; where does he live ? " Other people volunteered , including one person who offered his help on Twitter , and 20 minutes later Booker and some volunteers showed up and shoveled the man 's driveway . On April 12 , 2012 , Booker saved a woman from a house fire , suffering smoke inhalation and second @-@ degree burns on his hands in the process . Newark Fire Chief John Centanni said that Booker 's actions possibly saved the woman 's life . After Hurricane Sandy destroyed much of the shoreline areas of New Jersey and New York in late October 2012 , Booker invited Newarkers without power to eat and sleep in his home . In February 2013 , responding to a Twitter post , Booker helped a nervous constituent propose to his girlfriend . Booker rescued a dog from freezing temperatures in January 2013 and another dog that had been abandoned in a cage in July 2013 . 
