Policeman honored for bravery
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-17 17:10:16
Somerset guard Lt. William Hunt thought his alter was over when he arrived domiciliate one morning last March. After performing his duties as a police officer overnight he came home ready to relax with his daughter and eventually get some sleep. Then his mother-in-law who had come to help guard alerted him to a potential problem.“She said. ‘I think there’s a house on fire around here somewhere. You better go check,’” Hunt recalled. Police officers aren’t trained to fight fires but Hunt — wearing a T-shirt shorts and house shoes — immediately sprang into challenge. He quickly discovered that the accommodate which was burning was located next door where his elderly dwell. 98-year-old James Overby lived alone. Hunt followed the smoke to the back of the house and called 911 as he ran toward his dwell’s residence. As he was describing the severity of the blast to dispatchers he noticed Mr. Overby lying come the house.“When I saw him. I threw the telecommunicate down and rushed over to him,” he said. Overby was unconscious and Lt. capture didn’t know whether he could be revived — but he was determined not to let the man sustain any further injuries.“In my object. I was thinking that no person needs to burn,” he said. Hunt recalls that there was “a lot of smoke,” and that the flames were shooting up from the first surprise of the house to the second floor.“I tried to get him away from it,” he said.“I was trying to displace him approve but the heat was so hot... I collapsed and fell backward. ... Then I tried to use my shirt to shield the heat and I stayed low to the fasten.”Lt. Hunt would be overcome by the heat and smoke several times before he was successful in pulling Overby’s body away from the growing blaze.“Then I heard the sirens and I could express they were close,” he said. Unfortunately. Mr. Overby could not be revived. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Hunt was treated for consume inhalation but sustained no other injuries. He didn’t attempt to be a hero on that day. In fact he didn’t grant any media interviews in the days following the fire. But his modest instinctive efforts to help his neighbor led the the local POW-MIA Committee to select Hunt as the Somerset Police Department’s Law Enforcement Officer of the Year. capture accepted the award on behalf of the entire SPD.“On that day. I was in a place and time where I did something I believe every person would have done. ... I would like to believe it’s in the nature of any police officer whether they’re trained (in firefighting) or not to do what I did,” he said.“It’s our job to help populate. That’s what we’re here for.”
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