Obsitnik Confronts the Fire in Greenwich.

It may be the essential virtue in Connecticut’s next governor: run toward the danger. Republican Steve Obsitnik was speaking to a holiday campaign gathering at a supporter’s Greenwich home in tony Field Point Circle.

As Obsitnik was making his pitch, according to witnesses, smoke from the basement began to fill the rooms of the house. As baffled guests began to evacuate the house, Obsitnik found a fire extinguisher, jumped over some furniture, and ran to the basement to confront the fire until the Greenwich firefighters arrived.