A Texas firefighter pulled a trapped toddler from the window of a burning condominium constructing in a daring early morning rescue Sunday, and it was all caught on video.
The firefighter, recognized in a Fb submit as “J. Head” of the North Hood County Volunteer Hearth Division’s Engine 26, was captured on a colleague’s bodycam as he pulled 2-year-old Liam Eager from the window of a second-story bed room in a burning condominium constructing in Granbury.
The blaze was first reported to Hood County 911 at roughly 12:50 a.m., after which firefighters had been dispatched to the 300 block of Parkwood Lane. Upon arrival, they had been briefed on the state of affairs.
“We acquired a 2-year-old on the second ground,” a firefighter is heard saying shortly after arriving on the scene.
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A North Hood County firefighter breaks a bed room window in his bid to rescue 2-year-old Liam Eager from a Sunday morning condominium blaze. (Granbury Hearth Division)
Crew from the Granbury Volunteer Hearth Division’s (GVFD) Engine 1 rapidly introduced the ladder to the window, with Head making the climb, breaking the glass and eradicating Liam, who was instructed to return to the sound of firefighters’ voices.
“He is screaming, he is crying; that is good,” one other firefighter observes as Head descends the ladder with the boy in his arms.
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Liam was taken to an ambulance, the place he was handled earlier than being escorted through helicopter to Cook dinner Kids’s hospital in Fort Price for “additional superior care,” in line with the Fb submit.
Liam Eager, inset, has been hospitalized since his rescue from a Granbury, Texas, condominium fireplace, in line with KDFW. (Granbury Hearth Division | Inset: Phylicia Eager)
Liam’s mom, Phylicia Eager, reported that chest X-rays and blood work got here again good, in line with KDFW. Nonetheless, Liam did maintain some carbon monoxide poisoning.
Phylicia Eager additionally expressed tearful gratitude for the firefighters’ rescue efforts, KDFW reported.
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“I wish to thank them from the underside of my coronary heart for getting my child out as rapidly as you probably did,” she mentioned. “You all do not get sufficient credit score, you actually do not.”
“We’re all volunteers, however we’re professionals,” the GVFD’s Fb submit concluded. “We prepare to the best requirements and anticipate that from all of our members.
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The reason for the fireplace stays beneath investigation, in line with KDFW.
