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Tuesday January 11, 2005 | Firefighters Rule | Life |
Firefighters have always been heroes, well before 9/11, but this story just continues to prove the point. Pictured at left is firefighter Alberto Ortega carrying a six month old baby across a river after they were both tossed out of a rescue raft. You can
read about it here (it's the second rescue described in the story, not the tragic one), but to really appreciate it, you need to see the video. Sadly, I can't find a video feed on the web, so if anyone else has one, please post it in the comments.
What is impressive about the video is that Ortega manages to hang on to the baby, get upright, and then start walking through very deep, and very fast moving water. He's got both arms around the baby so he's only using he leg strength to keep upright. It's seriously moving stuff.
The baby suffered mild hypothermia (i.e. cold), but is expect to recover.
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January 11, 2005 12:54 PM PST
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