Connecticut cop honoured after rescuing woman from burning building
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A Connecticut police officer who rushed to a burning apartment building and rescued a woman was awarded two medals of merit and a lifesaving award from the local fire department on Monday.
The incident, which happened in Derby on Oct. 23, was captured on Patrolman Jonathan Tirado’s body camera, showing him running toward the building as smoke billows from the back of the complex.
As he shouts at the people gathered by the front door to get out, a woman tells him that her sister is downstairs.
Once he locates the woman, he notices she’s struggling and quickly carries her, walking up the stairs as the building’s fire alarms go off.
He carries the woman across the street and runs back to check on other residents.
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Woman had an oxygen concentrator
In an interview with the Connecticut Post , Tirado said that when he ran inside the building, another officer was already at the scene, knocking on the residents’ doors to evacuate them.
He said when he reached the woman downstairs, he noticed that she was carrying a medical device and appeared to be struggling with it.
“She was struggling to breathe, she was struggling to carry this oxygen concentrator,” Tirado said.
He said he tried to go back inside the building after rescuing the woman, but was “met with a dark wall of smoke.”
Tirado said the woman was subsequently taken to a hospital, where she was treated for some minor burns on the back of her neck.
Officials said all of the building’s residents made it out of the building safely and that 10 families have been displaced by the fire.
According to NBC Connecticut, police believe the fire was sparked by an ashtray that was emptied into the trash.