Several first responders aiding in the fight against California’s largest wildfire of the year are being lauded for their off-duty actions after they saved the life of a 10-year-old boy from drowning over the weekend.
The paramedics, assigned to the Dixie Fire, were staying at a hotel in Redding when they heard the mother’s anguished cries for help, according to video posted Sunday on the Cal Fire’s Butte Unit/Butte County Fire Department’s Facebook page.
Though they weren’t on the clock, the group immediately sprang into action, jumping a fence to get to the hotel pool where an unresponsive 10-year-old boy remained partially submerged in the water.