Time is always of the essence and on Friday, Nassau County firefighter Joshua Berglin didn’t have much to waste. He made a heroic, life-saving effort after seeing a truck submerged into a pond by jumping into action, the water and past an alligator to save a man’s life.
He described the entire moment only to Action News Jax; while he did the unthinkable, he said it’s just part of the job. “Pull up dive in, I didn’t think twice about it,” he said.
On the drive back from a routine call, Berglin and his partner saw a group of people standing near a pond off Dunn avenue, they pulled up to find the truck submerged into water with just its tail-end sticking out and someone on the inside.
“Someone was in there--when we found that out it was ‘get in and get him out,’” Berglin said.
Without hesitation, Berglin jumped in.
“I’m hearing ‘there’s a gator, there’s a gator’ just bailing in the water, swim past him,” Berglin said.