I think it's sort of reiterating that heros can be anyone. Doesn't have to be a marine or some decorated athlete or movie star... it can be a homeless person, a high school student... a pizza guy. Heros can be anyone.

he was off work, got into a debate w/ the girlfriend and went for a drive, was just driving around when he saw the fire dialled 911 and bolted inside to help

Really puts it all in perspective, eh boys

And that's all we really ever want to hear.

Dude needs to apply for the FD as soon as he's recovered

This made me cry. My Dad saved 4 people single handedly in a swamp boat accident. One of those big fan boats. Flipped in shallow water on Louisiana. After it flipped, 6 passengers became stuck, seat belts locked up. Slowly sinking in shallow, muddy water. He jumped in, swam to them, couldn't free them, swam back to his boat, got a knife from a stranger, swam back and cut four people from their belts. All unconscious. He finally got the last two, but it was too late. Both died. He was fucked up from it for a long time. Had recurring nightmares. Never felt like a hero. I imagined him asking the first responders if they made it, the two that came last, and him not getting the same answer this guy did. Fucking heavy.

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna6161646

Same here. Was burned in a house fire in high school, I see things like this and it brings it all back.

Him working that job is what allowed those kids to be saved. Actions maketh the man, not his job

I'm glad I'm not alone in tearing up at him asking about the baby.

He better have gotten a half a million gofundme after this. Atleast.

damn that's like half of his ER bill. Nice. 600K more and he would be treated for free.

Thank you for reposting. Donated. ❤️

I think it would depend on the situation. If I don't know what to do or where to go, I'd probably die a pointless death trying to play hero.

I dont even have the courage to get in the house when there’s a frog on the door

I read the other day that chronically anxious people tend to hold up the best under stressful situations.

They don't freeze up like "normal" people do, because they're used to walking through life in a state of fight or flight every day. When shit hits the fan and most people freeze or panic, the chronically anxious person just sees it as another day.

If anything, it can be paradoxically calming for them to have a clear external source of stress (instead of just generalised anxiety) and see everyone else freaking out, it makes them feel normal.

I’m sure he got all he needed and then some. People go crazy for viral stories like this with gofundme*****

Truly the American Dream.

/r/OrphanCrushingMachine

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What is his go fund me account?

Can you post the link?

He already did 🔥, going back for that 5th kid

I was going to say that's amazing, but burns snd smoke inhalation are awful and can be hard to heal so hopefully the treatment didn't take all of it.

That's barely going to cover the medical expenses. It may not even cover all of them if I'm being honest.

This hero likely went back to being a, now disabled, pizza delivery guy.

We need to fucking fix this shit.

his guys bills should have been covered by the state/nation

Sounds like communism to me /s.

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Now give more tax breaks to corporations and ask for nothing from megachurches.

quantifying this in terms of the economic value the kids will provide to society in their lifetimes is some of the most depraved neoliberal shit I've ever heard. not to mention thinking that someone needs to be a hero to get the state to cover their medical bills.

Taxes are to fund our wars overseas.... (And other people's wars)

Taxes are so that they can “lose” trillions of our tax dollars while they stuff their pockets every couple years and then call anyone who notices a conspiracy theorist

So we can give corporations tax cuts. You know, trickle down economics…..

This jibes with what I learned after a friend in college died after going back in to retrieve a few possessions. So much of the stuff that catches fire in a structure fire is toxic when burnt. Before that I always assumed I'd do exactly what he did but now I wouldn't go back in for anything other than a child or loved one.

Research in the UK showed firefighters were 4 times as likely to develop cancer as a result of particulate contamination - with a much higher incidence of head and neck cancers. They thought it was because firefighters would put their contaminated gloves in their helmets to store them then put them on without decontaminating them. The danger of fumes from fires doesn’t stop when you leave the scene

Research summary from the Fire Brigades Union

Moral of the story- if you want to be a bro, carry gear!

Your friend live in Ottawa? This is eerily similar to a good friend of mine as well, coma for a few months after a house fire.

« Dude decided to save a baby instead of delivering my pizza like he was asked to! 0 stars. I want him fired! »

*pizza was burnt

My pizza was TOO hot.

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There’s also Tricare for the military!

Had one of my coworkers bitching about socialism, and how people wanting free healthcare and college were leeches. Like my guy, your entire family are getting socialist benefits.

There is one scary word in that, that nobody understands, and therefore hates the whole sentence.

I’ve def seen this posted multiple times. And it brings a smile to my face each time.

A legit hero. Not the “I did my job” type of “hero”.

Unfortunately that’s the US health insurance crisis at the moment most minimum wage workers can’t afford it however if you are unemployed then you can it doesn’t make sence.

Same. What else can you take from me? I own nothing. You can't squeeze blood from a stone.

And you smell like smoking. Banging chicks next to the campfire?? I knew it