{"id":59127,"date":"2020-10-15T12:14:06","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T12:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=59127"},"modified":"2020-10-15T12:14:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T12:14:06","slug":"this-off-duty-volunteer-firefighter-rescued-girl-from-burning-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2020\/10\/15\/this-off-duty-volunteer-firefighter-rescued-girl-from-burning-building\/","title":{"rendered":"This off-duty volunteer firefighter rescued girl from burning building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elijah Hale has been a volunteer firefighter right since he was a 14-year-old. His quick thinking and courage helped him rescue a girl trapped inside a burning building recently when he noticed a house on fire while driving down Bender Road in Littlestown, PA.<\/p>\n<p>Elijah was off-duty when he drove by the house on fire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I knew something wasn&#8217;t right, found out a girl was trapped up in there,&#8221; he told KMBC. &#8220;The smoke had filled the entire house.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With no backup and no gear, Elijah found a ladder to rescue the girl trapped on the second floor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a blur. It was probably 30 seconds from the time I pulled up until the time I got the ladder. Then another 30 seconds till she was out of the house and outside. It was very split second,&#8221; he recalled.<\/p>\n<p>Elijah left the scene as soon as EMS arrived, but hours later he was called back to the scene to be recognized for his courage that saved a life.<\/p>\n<p>Read more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/3992\/Off-Duty-Volunteer-Firefighter-Rescues-Girl-In-Burning-Home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/3992\/Off-Duty-Volunteer-Firefighter-Rescues-Girl-In-Burning-Home<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elijah Hale has been a volunteer firefighter right since he was a 14-year-old. His quick thinking and courage helped him rescue a girl trapped inside a burning building recently when he noticed a house on fire while driving down Bender Road in Littlestown, PA. Elijah was off-duty when he drove by the house on fire. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59127","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\/59127","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=59127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}