Excerpts from ChicagoTribune.com:
Marcus McGee, a 30-year-old firefighter with the Richmond Fire Department in Virginia, is a 2004 graduate of North Chicago High School. He has been serving with the department for about three years. On December 17, he was part of the first team to arrive at the scene of a fire in an apartment building where an 11-month-old girl was trapped, according to Richmond Fire Department Chief Patrick Schoeffel.
The crew responded within 33 seconds of receiving the call, but thick black smoke made visibility nearly impossible. The engine had to stop 100 feet away from the building due to the intense conditions.
As firefighter Korey Pettiford parked the engine and connected to the hydrant, McGee—acting as lieutenant that day—along with two other firefighters, rushed into the burning building. It took them just one minute and 49 seconds to rescue the baby from the house.
The building had four apartments, and neighbors reported that a child was still inside, though they didn’t know which unit or even what the child looked like due to the smoke. The firefighters searched through the structure, eventually reaching the third apartment on the second floor.
There, they found the source of the fire in a bedroom on the right and heard a baby crying from another room on the same side. As they moved through the smoke-filled hallway, a flashover occurred—an intense explosion of flames that can be deadly in seconds.
McGee and firefighter Parker Ramsey, who has served with the department for a year, worked to control the fire, while veteran firefighter Carlos Samuels located the baby. With the hallway engulfed in flames, Samuels wrapped the child in his coat and sprinted down the stairs. All of this happened in under two minutes, according to the chief.
The baby appeared badly soot-covered, but she wasn’t burned. She was treated for smoke inhalation and released the next day. “This kid probably had less than a minute to live,†Schoeffel said. “She was just 10 feet away from the flashover and didn’t get burned.â€
The heat from the flashover melted the firefighters’ gear and burned their ears. “Everything was ruined except for their boots,†the chief added. “Their gear was damaged beyond repair—burned through and unusable.â€
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