20-year-old hero derrick bird received burns to the face, back and arms 2 and 3 levels, to save from a burning house his 8-year-old niece.
Lying on a hospital bed, the man says without hesitation would do so again: «I would do it again, even if even more burned or died.»
«She was screaming my name. so I wasn’t just going to let her sit there. I wasn’t going to let my niece die.” Derrick Byrd on going back into their Aberdeen burning house to rescue his niece. 6pm #komonews. pic.twitter.com/rX7l1HhJsf
— Keith Eldridge (@KeithKOMO4) July 6, 2019
House in Aberdeen, Washington caught fire when it was bird and six other members of the family, including three children. He caught a nephews Junior and Rory, who jumped out of a second story window, fleeing from the flames. But 8-year-old Mercedes panicked, seeing that her mother fell off the roof and did not jump.
«She was crying and calling for me. recalls derrick. I wasn’t going to allow her to stay there. I wouldn’t let my niece die.»
#BREAKING Aberdeen fire hero Derrick Byrd on rushing back into a burning house to rescue his niece. 6pm on #KOMONews pic.twitter.com/HeHzBN0e7g
— Keith Eldridge (@KeithKOMO4) July 6, 2019
Bird went back to the house, which was already fully engulfed in flames. He climbed up the stairs, feeling as the fire burns him, removed his shirt, covered the girl’s face to prevent smoke inhalation, and as quickly as possible made it out of the house. A badly burned guy and his nephews were taken to the medical center Harborview through the air.
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The house is completely burned down, firemen and police consider it a miracle that no one died. The cause of the fire has not yet figured out, but I suppose that it started on the second floor.
«I just ran up the stairs & pushed through the fire,» said Derrick Byrd from his room at Harborview. «I could feel it burning me. I got her & took my shirt off & put it around her face so she wouldn’t breath in any smoke & I just carried her out as fast as I could.” 6pm #komonews pic.twitter.com/tQBZV5dQ6F
— Keith Eldridge (@KeithKOMO4) July 6, 2019
