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A man in Lafayette, Indiana saved four children and an 18-year-old girl Monday morning by helping them escape from a massive house fire.
25-year-old Nick Bostic told WXIN he was driving home around 12:30 am when he saw the home ablaze.
“I saw the fire on the balcony so I slammed on the brakes, pulled in the driveway, and ran into the house from the back. I was hollering ‘Is there anybody in there?’” he said.
When he got inside the house, Bostic saw the 18-year-old girl and three kids.
The group told him there was another child in the home and he rushed back in, understanding the potentially life-threatening risk.
“The smoke just came out of nowhere. It was pitch black, pitch black. The heat was excruciating,” Bostic described the scene.
He eventually found a six-year-old girl in the home and ran upstairs to jump out of a second-story window, the only exit he could find.
Police bodycam footage shows the heroic citizen pleading for oxygen and being treated for cuts on his arms.
“Is the baby okay? Please tell me that baby is okay,” he told officers who assured him she was alright.
Police now say the young girl was “miraculously mostly uninjured.”
As for Bostic, he told WLFI, “The front of my hand, it’s cut up pretty bad. They rewrapped it before I left. But I got a cut right here, a possible severed tendon. The bottom of my hands are blistered like I grabbed something hot. I recall seeing flames through the window as I was punching it out.”
“I was just pushing time on its edge. I was pushing its limit, literally pushed its limit to the last millisecond. I just got lucky,” Bostic added.
Fox News reported Bostic as saying, “Waking up every morning I have something to remind me of why I’m here, still alive. Why God keeps me here. He used me like his instrument that night.”
While he doesn’t wish to be hailed as a hero, the city of Lafayette issued a statement thanking Bostic for his selflessness and calmness in the face of danger.
“Nicholas Bostic’s heroic actions saved lives. His selflessness during this incident is inspiring, and he has impressed many with his courage, tenacity, and steadfast calmness in the face of such perilous danger,” the statement reads.