Heroic Pizza Delivery Man Repeatedly Rushes Into Burning Building to Save Children From Fire

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Incredible. 25 yo pizza delivery man runs into burning house, saves four children who tell him another might be in the house. He goes back in, finds the girl, jumps out a window with her, and carries her to a cop who captures the moment on his bodycam

Oh good the cop's standing around to film it all. Swell. Probably "waiting for more resources."

While Nick Bostick is a pizza delivery guy, he wasn't delivering anything to this house. He was just driving by, delivering to other houses, and noticed the smoke. He ran into the house on instinct to see if anyone was inside.

After saving four children, he ran back in to find the fifth.

The young hero Nick Bostick was forced by the fire to jump from a second-story window while cradling a six-year-old child.

The child was mostly unharmed. He suffered severe cuts to his arm from the shattering glass, but he's recovering.

Story at People:

n Indiana man was injured this week after saving five children from a burning home.

Nicholas Bostic, a 25-year-old pizza delivery driver from Lafayette, suffered severe smoke inhalation and a cut on his arm after jumping out the second-story window of the burning house with a 6-year-old during Monday's rescue, according to a release from LPD. The child was "miraculously mostly uninjured."

He recounted to authorities running into the house through the backdoor after driving by and noticing the flames at around midnight. His yells woke the four children, ages 1 to 18, sleeping upstairs, before he helped them outside.

The kids alerted Bostic that a 6-year-old might still be inside and he ran back in "without hesitation," returning to the bedroom upstairs, according to the release. When he couldn't find anyone, he began to search for an exit before hearing crying coming from downstairs.

Bostic wrapped his shirt around his mouth and nose as he braved a "black lagoon" of smoke in the stairwell to retrieve the child. As he couldn't find the door he used through the thick smoke, they returned upstairs where Bostic punched a window out before jumping to the ground while making sure the child landed safely, the LPD states.

After the fall, while being tended to for his cuts and smoke inhalation, he just wanted to know if the baby he'd saved in his first rescue mission was okay.

As you can hear ("I can't even talk") he has severe smoke inhalation.

Here's another fire rescue story.

Portugal (and other parts of Europe) have been contending with with wildfires that have been burning up villages and farmland.

Spectacular photos of the fires near the village of Boa Vista by Paulo Cunha, from the EFE agency:

Citizen men rushed into to the burning houses to rescue people as well as animals. This picture from Yasin Akgul/AFP:

This site has been a bit toxically masculine lately, so I'm dropping in this as a visual bon-bon for the ladies.

The most popular picture to come out of the rescue was of a 22 year old man, Joao Paulo Ruivo, carrying a wounded sheep out of the fire on his shoulders.

Wait a minute -- Paulo?

Nah, wrong spelling.

posted by Ace at 01:05 PM

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