New York man who broke into a school to shelter more than 20 people from deadly blizzard is awarded Super Bowl tickets by the Buffalo Bills

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A man who saved more than 20 people during the deadly snowstorm that shrouded Erie County, New York, in December has been thanked for his actions with tickets to the Super Bowl gifted to him in part by the NFL’s Buffalo Bills.When Jay Withey, a mechanic in the town of Cheektowaga, found himself among the scores of people trapped in their cars during the storm, he broke into a school building and gathered nearly two dozen people there to shelter from the harsh conditions that would eventually leave nearly 40 people dead.For his heroic efforts, he received two tickets to next month’s Super Bowl LVII in Glendale, Arizona, in a collaboration between the Buffalo Bills and the regional branch of the insurance company Blue Cross Blue Shield.The blizzard buried Buffalo in nearly 52 inches of snow in late December, leaving many people stuck on snow-filled roadways as emergency personnel were unable to push through extremely dangerous whiteout conditions.Withey left a note behind apologizing for the break-in, which police found when they were eventually able to respond."

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