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FOREST LAKE, Minn. (AP) - A deputy fire chief ran into a burning mobile home without his safety gear and rescued two children, authorities said.
Bruce Wightman was called at home about the fire a little after 1 a.m. Wednesday. He rushed to the scene in his street clothes and saw flames and smoke, Fire Chief Gary Sigfrinius said.
When Wightman learned two children were inside, he used a police officer's baton to break a back-door window and unlock the door, Sigfinius said. He crawled down a smoke-filled hallway and found the children, a 6-year-old boy and a 4-year-old girl, in a bedroom at the rear of them, and carried them out.
The children were in fair condition Wednesday at Hennepin County Medical Center, Sigfinius said. The children's mother escaped unhurt.
He said Wightman didn't have time to put on protective gear.
"He is a trained firefighter and he knew what he was getting into and knew how far he could crawl," Sigfrinius said
2007-06-27 07:20:26 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
And he probably didn't get crap for his heroic deeds...
I would like to shake that guys hand and thank him for being a true american hero!!!
But somehow, actor/actresses get millions upon millions of dollars...Just doesn't seem fair. People like him should be raking in the dough for putting his life on the line!!!
2007-06-27 07:26:45 · answer #1 · answered by Violation Notice 6 · 7⤊ 1⤋
Well if this were someone I knew ..I would suspect that he knew the layout of the home and probably been there. Sounds like he might know the mother personally. But to me why didnt the mother try and get the kids out. If it had been me I would fought tooth and nail to get to my kids. She might of set the thing on fire.. who knows what goes through someone's mind. Just my way of reading and looking at things that happen.
2007-06-27 07:26:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I think those children are lucky that someone cared enough to put his own life at risk to save them. Gives me a warm fuzzy feeling that he takes his position as a trained firefighter seriously.
2007-06-27 07:24:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
Thats a True American Hero there...Glad to hear the Children were safe..
2007-06-27 10:35:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
He's a hero.. why would anyone think otherwise? And by the way, I live just southeast of Forest Lake, MN.
2007-06-27 07:24:19 · answer #5 · answered by Strawberry Blonde 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
No, it wasn't too long, actually.
Brave guy, good job. Sounded like something out of a comic book.
2007-06-27 07:35:27 · answer #6 · answered by Ethen 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
good for that man, but how could a mother escape unharmed and leave her little kids in the house?
I would go down in a blaze of glory, before I left my kids in a burning house~
2007-06-27 07:26:57 · answer #7 · answered by lady luck 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Brave man... A true hero everyone should respect him and others like him
2007-06-27 07:27:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
i like to buy him a beer and i live close enough to do that
what about the guy who put the 12 and 8 year old in the trunk yeaterday it was 93 with a dew point of 70 that hot as hell
2007-06-27 07:25:17 · answer #9 · answered by chipzeke 4 · 3⤊ 3⤋
That is really awesome....you didnt mention if he was ok or not? He is a hero in my book....oh to demin dame - that was too long to read? what did it take you - 2 min to read it? talk about stupid.
2007-06-27 07:25:58 · answer #10 · answered by caveman2copper 2 · 8⤊ 0⤋