VIDEO: Before Jacksonville Fire And Rescue Department Lt. Mike Belcher even made it to the Mayport house fire, he had a knot in his stomach. The fire communications operators had already told him there was a child inside the burning home.
“I don’t know if it was what was on the line with a child being inside, but it was so unnerving going in there,” Belcher said.
Lt. Belcher said he and Engineer Jonathan Woodberry hatched a game plan before they pulled up to the mobile home on Feb. 7. They were going to try to get someone who lived there to show them the baby’s window and go in.
“I was getting in that window one way or the other and I was going to come back with that baby,” Belcher said.
Capt. Jeff Kendall’s engine arrived just before Lt. Belcher’s. Their station was right around the corner from the fire.