VIDEO: Nearly two years after he was accidentally shot in the chest, 14-year-old Eric Mendez finally was able to thank the firefighters and hospital personnel who saved his life, during a gathering at a Phoenix fire station Wednesday. Mendez was accidentally shot by his uncle in his home on Feb. 21, 2016. The bullet went through Mendez's arm and pierced through his chest. When paramedics arrived the boy, then 12, had no pulse and wasn't breathing. Phoenix Fire Engine 21 paramedics, along with nurses and doctors from Phoenix Children's Hospital, saved Mendez's life.