Big First Day for Escondido Firefighter
This guy had a big first day as a firefighter (from the San Diego Union-Tribune via Firehouse.com).
ESCONDIDO – Not many people can say they've rescued someone from a burning building. Even fewer can say they did it on their first day on the job.Yesterday morning, Dominick Polito, a firefighter/paramedic with the Escondido Fire Department, did just that.
He pulled to safety a baby and a woman from the second story of an apartment building on fire.
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When firefighters arrived, they saw the woman leaning out a window, holding her baby out to get it away from the smoke. “It appeared she was getting ready to jump,” Rea said.
Firefighters extended a ladder to the upstairs apartment to help her out.
Polito climbed up the steps and rescued the two, first the baby, then the mother, Rea said. Firefighters extinguished the blaze in 20 minutes.
Kudos to Firefighter Polito!
