A man is being hailed as a hero after he charged into a house that had turned into a raging inferno to rescue a young girl.
A late-night argument was his girlfriend had a disgruntled 25-year-old Nicholas Bostic out driving aimlessly around his town when he saw a house completely engulfed in flames.
He parked up and ran inside. The oldest of the five children - 18 year old Seionna Barret - had already gathered together her siblings and was going down the stairs from the second floor when they encountered Bostic. Once outside however, Seionna told Bostic that her 6-year-old sister wasn’t with them. Running back inside, Bostic described the fire in the Lafayette, Indiana home as having created a “black lagoon” of smoke on the ground floor.
But after checking all the bedrooms on the second floor, he still had not found the youngster.
He moved to a window to escape from the house when he heard a child’s cry coming from downstairs, say Lafayette reporters. Wrapping a t-shirt around his mouth, he crawled through the blackness, following the sounds of the girl’s cries.
When he found her, they raced back through the smoke, ran upstairs, and he smashed a window with his bare hand, and they jumped down onto the lawn where a fire and rescue team had arrived.
Bostic suffered 1st degree burns, a serious cut on his arm, and smoke inhalation, and would be airlifted to a hospital. Remarkably, the 6 year old child was completely unharmed.
A GoFundMe was set up for Bostic’s medical bills by his cousin, which shattered the $100,000 goal by amassing a whopping $560,000 for the hero.
Bostic says the experience brought him a “new lease on life” - indeed he spent enough time in that burning house to have several lives flash before his eyes.