Hero saves children from burning home
Published: June 4, 2008
Described as a hero, Officer Jeremy Foote raced in a home with a room on fire Wednesday morning and helped bring two girls to safety, officials said.
Unattended candles sparked a blaze about 11:50 p.m. Tuesday at a home in the 2200 block of Southeast Carnation Road, which Foote noticed while on routine patrol, a police report states.
Foote “saw the fire and called it in and got some of the family members out of the house,” St. Lucie County Fire District spokeswoman Catherine Whitaker said.
“Foote was a hero because of his fast action,” Whitaker said. “He did a good deed.”
One bedroom of the single-story home appeared “fully engulfed,” and Foote went to the front door to see whether anyone was inside, a police report states.
That’s when Stanley Dossous, 24, ran out with a fire extinguisher. Dossous said his family remained inside, and Foote raced to the front door and came across 31-year-old Myrlende Guerrier, who said she and her two daughters, one 7 and the other 9, were inside.
The girls ran out of their bedroom and Foote escorted them outside before he and another officer tried to help Dossous contain the blaze.
The fire caused about $5,000 in damage to one room, Whitaker said.
Foote, 34, joined the police department in January 2007, said Officer Robert Vega, police spokesman.
An offer from the Fire District to the victims for Red Cross assistance was turned down, the police report states.
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