{"id":59076,"date":"2020-09-16T08:03:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T08:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=59076"},"modified":"2020-09-16T08:03:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T08:03:19","slug":"teen-hero-saved-a-family-of-four-from-burning-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2020\/09\/16\/teen-hero-saved-a-family-of-four-from-burning-vehicle\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen hero saved a family of four from burning vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Gavin, an18-year-old\u00a0from Connecticut, was walking to his local Walgreens when he suddenly saw a car on fire going down the street. The chased the car while yelling the driver to stop. Once the car stopped, he bravely pulled out the mother from the driver&#8217;s side before pulling three children in the back seat to safety, including a 4, 9, and 1-year-old, who was in a car seat.<\/p>\n<p>Hours after the dramatic rescue, Police Chief Fernando Spagnolo presented Gavin with a &#8220;challenge coin&#8221;, one of the city&#8217;s highest honors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just to acknowledge this heroic act that you conducted today and just a token of my appreciation for you being a great member of this community. I appreciate it. Thank you very much,&#8221; Spagnolo said.<\/p>\n<p>Spagnolo also said he hopes the coin reminds Gavin of this heroic day and allows him to reflect on all of the good that came out of it, including saving a family of four.<\/p>\n<p>Read more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/3953\/Brave-Teen-Saves-Mom-And-Three-Children-By-Pulling-Them-From-Burning-Car\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/3953\/Brave-Teen-Saves-Mom-And-Three-Children-By-Pulling-Them-From-Burning-Car<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Gavin, an18-year-old\u00a0from Connecticut, was walking to his local Walgreens when he suddenly saw a car on fire going down the street. The chased the car while yelling the driver to stop. Once the car stopped, he bravely pulled out the mother from the driver&#8217;s side before pulling three children in the back seat to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}