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An Indiana pizza delivery man is being hailed as a hero after rescuing five kids from a burning house.
The Lafayette Police Department and Fire Department received a call around 12:30 a.m. July 11 about a house fire. Upon arrival, officers encountered the house “fully engulfed in flames” and firefighter personnel could not enter the residence. However, 25-year-old Nicholas Bostic, a local pizza delivery man, “jumped through a window of the second-story house and landed on the ground with the 6-year-old child who had been trapped inside,” the Lafayette Police Department said.
Bostic suffered from “severe smoke inhalation” and “gravely” cut his right arm. Meanwhile, the child was “miraculously mostly uninjured.”
Video footage captured Bostic carrying out the young girl to authorities. Bostic could be heard pleading for oxygen before asking, “Is the baby ok?”
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After Bostic regained enough strength, he detailed what the police department is calling the “nothing short of courageous and heroic” story.
Bostic said he was driving by when he noticed the house on fire and immediately pulled into the driveway. Bostic wasted no time trying to call authorities and instead ran to the back door and screamed into the house that it was engulfed in flames.
“He didn’t receive an answer and contemplated the possibility that everyone had already evacuated. Not taking the chance that someone could still be inside, he decided to go in,”
Bostic then encountered four children between the ages of 1-18 and helped them escape.
Once the four children were outside, Bostic was made aware of a six-year-old still inside the home and immediately ran back into the house. Bostic could not find the child and was about to leave before he when looked down a stairwell “into a ‘black lagoon’ of smoke,” and heard the 6-year-old crying. (RELATED: ‘We Immediately Sprung Into Action’: Police Save Six People From Fire)
Bostic said he wrapped his shirt around his mouth and ran through the thick black smoke until he located the girl. He was forced to go back upstairs where he dove out the window while carrying the girl.
Bostic is set to be honored during the National Night Out at the Aviators game Aug. 2.
Authorities believe the house caught fire after a bucket of ashes left on the porch wasn’t fully extinguished, according to the Lafayette Journal & Courier.
The parents of four of the kids — a fifth child was sleeping at house for a sleepover — were on a date night and arrived home to find their house on fire, according to Global News.