Firefighters who rescued five people from a Sunday morning apartment fire described the moments they pulled a family to safety as flames destroyed the building.
Christopher Carter – a Chatham County firefighter – said he saw people hanging out a window when crews arrived around 4 a.m. “I literally just set up the ladder right here and prepared for rescue,” Carter said.
Body camera footage captured the family’s cries for help, met with calm but direct directions from Chatham County Police officers. The fire destroyed the entire building and left families without their belongings. Each family however, says they are thankful no person was majorly injured.
Joshua Anderson – Chatham County Fire’s Safety and Training Chief, said he watched Carter and captain John-William Farrell develop throughout their careers.
“Assigning them those tasks to do, I had the confidence in them to do it,” Anderson said. “That’s what we prepare for, for situations like this. The crew that actually made the rescue out the window were all back there, we were doing this same scenario at 2 o’clock that afternoon before.”
Two county police officers and two county firefighters worked together to make a complete rescue. Every neighbor affected by the fire has been offered a new room. Stephen Frazier, who saved his dog Dutchess, was moved to a one-bedroom unit in another building.
WTOC-TV CBS 11 Savannah
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