Police officers and a neighbor in Christopher, Illinois, are being praised for hurrying to the help of a firefighter when a house collapsed.
The teams responded to the scene shortly after the house caught fire early, Fox News reported Tuesday.
The images of the body of the body show the house with flames and black smoke that leaves while people were close and on the other side of the street.
However, seconds in the clip, the house explodes and its front porch collapses. All in the scene flee from the explosion, but moments later it seems that they are alerted about the fact that a firefighter is still inside the house and needs help.
“Let’s get it out! Come on, let’s get it!” Someone is heard screaming when several officers and a hurried adhesive to the house without worrying about their own safety.
The group grabs the roof of the porch and raises it quickly while someone continues to shout: “Take it out!”
Then the crew members are seen pulling the firefighter, wearing its heavy gear, from under the rubble:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_gnummjkd8
According to the authorities, the firefighter did not suffer any important injury and is recovering, by the national news desk.
In a statement after the incident, the Christopher Police Department said: “We are grateful for all our firefighters and first respond! They have a very dangerous job, and today they highlighted the dangers they also face.”
“We are grateful that no one suffered important injuries. Our thoughts and prayers are with Christopher’s firefighter for a quick and fast recovery, and also with the family that lost its duration of their home this tragedy,” said the agency.
Officials are investigating the cause of the fire, according to KFVs.
Duration an interview with the officers who saved him, the grateful firefighter who was rescued, Richard Jackson, said that once he realized that he was taken out of the rubble that he knew he was going to walk to whistle to his neighbor. Out more. Out more. Out more
“It is not one of those things that scares me to do it. In any case, it makes me because to do it more because people need help, that is what we are here to do,” he explained.
