Lori Byrd, a Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department firefighter, was the winner of "Good Housekeeping" magazine's Hometown Heroes contest. As a result, she was awarded a cover shoot, in which she appears next to WWE superstar John Cena.
Lori Byrd always wanted to be a firefighter, she wanted to help people.
"I just never went into it because it's a male-dominated career and I just didn't think it was something women did," explains Byrd.
Instead, she pursued a career in banking until she had one of those life-changing experiences that put it all into perspective.
A woman had crashed into a retention pond with her kid in the backseat right by the bank she was working at.
"I just assumed that they would swim to the edge, you know, it wasn't that far but they just went under and didn't come back."