[narrator] In Wyoming...
[Deputy Mills speaking]
[man shouting]
[Deputy Mills speaking]
[narrator] ...a brutal gunfight.
[gun firing]
[Deputy Mills speaking]
We, like, went from zero to 60 in a matter of seconds.
[police siren wailing]
[narrator] In Marion County, Florida...
[police officer speaking]
...a shocking standoff.
[Captain Batts speaking]
My heart just jumped.
There's just a face poking out
in between the branches of the tree.
[narrator] And in Orlando,
an inferno...
[woman speaking]
[Deputy Puzynski speaking]
...calls for a daring rescue.
[Deputy Puzynski speaking]
[deputy speaking]
The baby is, like,
almost hanging from one arm.
[indistinct police radio chatter]
[officer] Yeah, come out. Come outside!
[narrator] In Laramie County, Wyoming,
is the state capital, Cheyenne.
Former Marine, Deputy Mills,
is on a stakeout...
...hunting a wanted man.
I've been trying to follow and track down
James Templeton Jr. for approximately 18 months.
He has an active warrant out of Colorado
for failure to register as a sex offender,
and he also has another warrant out of Colorado,
which was kidnapping.
He also has an active warrant
out of Laramie County, Wyoming,
which was strangulation of a household member.
[narrator] Deputy Mills is outside what he believes
is the suspect's address.
And tonight, it's Halloween.
[Deputy Mills] Saddle Ridge,
it's a very affluent neighborhood.
There's 100 kids trick-or-treating...
[children laughing]
...which gave me kind of an opportunity
to see if this suspect was home,
if he would open his door
to hand out candy, that sort of thing.
[narrator] A few streets away,
rookie deputy Grove
patrols with her field training officer,
Detective Delcamp.
I had been a deputy in training
for about 12 weeks.
Twelve weeks of training in the cop world is nothing.
I mean, it's not even a baby cop at this point.
[Deputy Delcamp] Krista asked if it would be okay
if we could patrol through that neighborhood
and hand out candy to people.
I didn't have a problem with that.
It's good community policing,
and so it lets the public know we're out there.
[Deputy Mills] I'm watching his house,
just being patient.
Suddenly, I can see him.
He continues to open the door and hand out candy to kids
that are going through the neighborhood.
I know that Deputy Grove
and Deputy Delcamp are close by.
And so, I decide to call for backup.
[narrator] Deputy Grove knows Mike Mills well,
as he is also one of her training officers.
[Deputy Grove] He told us to set up surveillance
at the north side of the back of the house.
[narrator] With a history of violence
and outstanding warrants
for strangulation and kidnapping,
officers must approach Templeton
with extreme caution.
[Deputy Delcamp] We were not going to make contact with the suspect
until the streets were cleared.
We just have to be patient.
We know where the person is.
He's not going anywhere.
[Deputy Mills] As the streets start to die down and emptying,
now my car is sticking out like a sore thumb.
James Templeton starts coming outside the front door
to look at my patrol vehicle and then run back inside.
I make the decision,
I'm gonna go up to the front door
and wait for the other officers
to also put themselves in position
before making contact.
But as I got into that position,
James comes out of the front door.
[indistinct shouting]
[Deputy Mills speaking]
[Templeton speaking]
[Deputy Mills speaking]
[Deputy Mills] We were pretty close,
8-10 ft. away from each other.
I do what I can to try and detain him,
but he makes it back to the front door.
So I place my foot inside of the door
to keep it from closing.
[Deputy Grove] We heard over the radio
to step it up to the front door.
Usually when that happens, something bad's going on.
[Deputy Mills] I'm in a poor position.
I try and teach
never stand in the front of a door
because a lot of officers can get killed that way.
In law enforcement context,
that's obviously the fatal funnel.
[Deputy Mills shouting]
[Templeton shouting]
I know that
he doesn't have a shotgun in his hand
because his hands, I can see both of his hands
wrapped around the door.
[woman speaking]
[narrator] But the suspect isn't alone.
His girlfriend is inside, too.
You can hear the female on the other side of the door.
I think she was kind of in shock.
[woman speaking]
[Deputy Mills speaking]
[Templeton speaking]
The situation has obviously escalated.
[Templeton speaking]
-[Deputy Mills speaking] -[Taser crackling]
[Deputy Mills] I arc my Taser.
It sends electricity across the front of your Taser
without actually shooting it towards somebody.
[grunts]
[Deputy Mills speaking]
[bleep]
[Deputy Delcamp speaking]
We, like, went from zero to 60 in a matter of seconds.
[Templeton speaking]
[Deputy Mills speaking]
[Deputy Delcamp speaking]
[bleep]
[Deputy Mills shouting]
[Deputy Delcamp shouting]
[Deputy Mills shouting]
[gunshot]
[gun firing]
[indistinct shouting]
[Deputy Delcamp speaking]
[screaming]
[Deputy Mills speaking]
[gun firing]
[Deputy Delcamp shouting]
[Deputy Mills shouting]
-[bleep] -[gun firing]
[Deputy Delcamp shouting]
[bleep]
[fast-forwarding]
[indistinct shouting]
[Deputy Grove] Everything happened so fast.
Deputy Delcamp was standing behind me as my FTO,
still trying to walk me through what's going on.
That's my job as a field training officer,
to be there, to observe
and to see how she's going to respond
to this high-stress situation.
[Deputy Mills] Right now, James, you won't be tased.
I suddenly feel the door release
and he runs towards the kitchen.
[indistinct shouting]
I deployed my Taser, but it didn't work.
[Deputy Grove] With no hesitation,
I run in after Deputy Mills.
That is my partner.
I am not going to let him go in alone.
[Deputy Delcamp] I wanted to continue down the hall,
but the female was behind the door.
I didn't know if she was going to assist the suspect.
[Deputy Mills] James Templeton was reaching to get something.
I can see a pistol pointed at me.
[Deputy Mills shouting]
I make the decision to get out of the house.
But Deputy Grove ran right past me.
Now she's in there by herself.
[Deputy Grove] I thought he said, "Get down!"
I was behind the sofa
and at this point, James Templeton
is on the other side of the island.
It kind of sunk in like, "Okay,
"things are going to go bad right now."
[Deputy Mills shouting]
[gunshot]
[gun firing]
[Deputy Mills] I believe I fired seven shots.
He fell back into the kitchen.
But I didn't know how many times
I had physically hit him at this point.
But he's still shooting back.
[Deputy Grove] I had complete tunnel vision.
I was not even aware of what was going on.
[Deputy Mills] Deputy Grove is now
what we call "condition black."
Essentially, your brain has become overwhelmed
with whatever situation you're in.
But she is directly
in the line of sight of Templeton.
If I don't do something right now,
she's going to get shot and killed.
[indistinct shouting]
[narrator] Mike Mills' military training kicks in
[Deputy Mills] Essentially, you become the bullet sponge.
And so, I step in between
Deputy Grove and where James Templeton's
that in the kitchen.
Charlie-77, shot fired, shot fired.
He pokes his head up over the kitchen counter.
[gunshots]
And shoots me center chest.
[gunshots]
I remember it hitting me like a ton of bricks.
I fall backwards towards Deputy Grove.
[gun firing]
This is enough to bring her out of that condition black.
[Deputy Grove] I thought to myself like,
"I have to snap out of it."
So, I crawl around the backside of Deputy Mills.
[gun firing continues]
[Deputy Mills shouting]
I need to get out.
[gun firing continues]
But as I'm scrambling backwards,
I vividly remember getting shot in the left calf.
It just felt like a hot iron going through my leg.
I remember thinking to myself, "I'm losing this fight."
[bleep]
[gun cocking]
[Deputy Mills shouting]
I had actually fired all of my rounds in the house.
I start to reload my weapon.
That's when I realized that my left arm was broken.
That's probably some of the worst pain
that I've ever felt in my life.
[Deputy Delcamp speaking]
[Deputy Mills speaking]
[Deputy Grove speaking]
[officer speaking]
He jumped out. He caught me.
[Deputy Grove] It wasn't until we got out of the house
when I realized Deputy Mills got shot.
I knew he had been shot.
I didn't know how many times,
but I knew he was conscious and awake.
How he got shot and I did not,
I will never understand.
[narrator] Backup is arriving,
but Templeton is still a threat.
We didn't know how seriously injured the suspect was
because he was shooting at us
when we were running out of the house.
[siren wailing]
We still had a suspect
who was armed and dangerous,
and we had no idea where the suspect was.
[Deputy Delcamp] So the immediate concerns
were whether or not the suspect's gonna come out.
So, Krista and I covered the door,
another deputy covered the back.
So, we had containment
while Mike got aid.
[Deputy Mills speaking]
As I get back to my patrol vehicle
with the sergeant that's showing up on scene,
I asked him to apply a tourniquet to my left leg
so as to prevent blood loss.
[Deputy Mills speaking]
[sergeant speaking]
[Deputy Mills] I didn't know how bad that wound was.
[breathing heavily]
[narrator] The suspect, James Templeton,
is inside the house.
Condition unknown.
But so is his girlfriend.
[Deputy Delcamp speaking]
[Deputy Grove] Deputy Delcamp tried getting the girlfriend
to come outside.
She refused.
She stayed inside of the house.
So, obviously, it's a very tense situation.
Right then, tactically,
it potentially became a hostage situation
with a barricaded suspect.
[Deputy Delcamp speaking]
And we just waited for more officers to arrive
and eventually, S.W.A.T.
[narrator] As more units surround the property
to contain Templeton,
officers see signs of movement.
[deputy speaking]
[Deputy Delcamp speaking]
Eventually, the girlfriend does leave the house
after the incident.
[narrator] S.W.A.T. officers arrive on scene
and search the property.
[deputy] Sounds like dude left on foot.
[narrator] They find Templeton deceased in the bathroom
with a loaded gun.
[Deputy Mills] He did not surrender.
He essentially just sat in the bathroom
waiting for other officers to come in
to ambush them, to kill them until he died of his injuries.
[Deputy Mills groans]
[narrator] The extent of Mike Mills own injuries
becomes apparent.
[sergeant speaking]
[Deputy Mills] I'm trying to describe where the pain is.
I'm trying to describe where my injuries are
to the ambulance personnel.
[sergeant speaking]
The bullet that had struck me in my left chest,
and the concern there is that it might puncture a lung
and give you what's called a sucking chest wound
that would cause you to die very quickly.
[coughs]
[groans]
We had kind of came to the conclusion
that that was not the case,
um, because my breathing was completely fine.
[sergeant speaking]
[indistinct]
I remember the sergeant kind of doing a check on me
and Deputy Delcamp
to make sure that we weren't shot.
[sergeant speaking]
[officer over radio]
And it kind of suck in a little bit more
of what had just happened.
[exclaims]
I had never gone through
something like that, obviously,
especially 12 weeks into training.
So, the adrenaline started to dump,
and that's when the emotion came out.
[indistinct shouting]
During training, they tell you about tunnel vision,
and it's one of those things that you cannot control.
I remember everything just slowing down.
Everything was in slow motion.
I could still see what was going on at this point.
But sitting there thinking to myself
for that split second of,
"This is where I die."
[gunshots]
Having that thought go through your mind
is probably one of the worst feelings
that [voice breaking] I have ever experienced,
especially being a parent.
[gunshots]
It was then when you kind of snap out of it
and you do whatever you can
to make it out alive at this point.
[narrator] Deputy Mills' use of deadly force
was deemed justified by authorities.
This event is life-changing for all concerned.
Due to his injuries,
Mike Mills is forced to retire.
Leaving law enforcement
was one of the hardest decisions that I had to make.
It was hard to swallow that pill.
But right now, uh, over a year down the road,
things are definitely looking better.
I've been learning who I am now
that I'm not a law enforcement officer anymore.
[Deputy Delcamp shouting]
I mean, to this day, I don't know how I didn't get shot.
[gun firing]
But because of Mike, that didn't happen.
Just knowing that he took a bullet for me,
not one, but three, um...
So, it was... It was huge
and I will forever,
-forever be grateful for him. -[crowd clapping]
[narrator] In Florida,
90 miles southwest of Jacksonville
is Marion County.
It's early morning,
and Sheriff's Deputy Ferguson
patrols the lonely country roads.
[Deputy Ferguson] New Year's Day, it really isn't too, too bad.
Most people are still hanging out with family members.
I'm certainly hoping for it to be a nice, quiet day
where nothing too off-the-wall happens.
[narrator] Deputy Ferguson spots a vehicle
being driven by a man wanted on charges of arson.
The call taker described his vehicle
as a red Camaro
with black racing stripes on it
and Tennessee tags.
[Deputy Ferguson speaking]
[female officer over radio]
We were informed that his name was Jessie Kropp.
With somebody with an arson charge,
the danger is very high to the general public.
Who knows what they're capable of.
I've never had any dealings with Mr. Kropp before.
I don't know if he's armed.
I don't know if he has violent tendencies
towards law enforcement.
Once I had made the decision
that I was gonna attempt a traffic stop,
I activated my lights.
[siren wailing]
[Deputy Ferguson speaking]
I've been on quite a few car chases,
um, I've never had one flip me off.
I found myself chuckling at it.
That was... That was a new one.
We had a crime that warranted a chase.
If he wants to run, we're gonna chase him.
[Deputy Ferguson speaking]
I radioed Deputy Artman.
"Get ready. He's coming to you."
I was the only deputy in the area
who could have set up stop sticks.
Stop sticks are used to immobilize the vehicle.
If they are successfully deployed,
then the tires are deflated
via the spikes.
[siren wailing]
[Deputy Ferguson] I bet everything on this stop stick deployment,
of it working and hoping that it does.
[indistinct radio chatter]
[Deputy Ferguson speaking]
I actually saw him drive over the stop sticks
and knew that it was a good deployment and a good hit.
[Deputy Ferguson speaking]
Once I saw the tires actually starting to deflate
and his car starting to lean a little bit,
I started preparing myself of,
"This is going to end soon, one way or the other."
[siren wailing]
[Deputy Ferguson speaking]
-[tires screech] -[indistinct radio chatter]
[beeps]
[seat belt unbuckling]
[Deputy Ferguson shouting]
I saw what I thought was a long gun.
[siren wailing]
[Deputy Ferguson shouting]
Once I got out of the car,
I realized that it was actually a bat
and he was kind of holding it
similar to how you would hold a long gun.
[Deputy Ferguson speaking]
[sirens approaching]
I'm just hoping that he's gonna come to his senses.
[narrator] Corporal Artman arrives seconds later.
My first thought is,
how are we going to get him into custody safely
without any harm following him,
following us.
[Deputy Ferguson speaking]
[Deputy Ferguson] When Mr. Kropp pulled out a machete
as well as the bat,
he began making threats with that as well.
[siren wailing]
[Deputy Ferguson speaking]
[Corporal Artman shouting]
[Deputy Ferguson shouting]
[Corporal Artman shouting]
[Corporal Artman] Deputy Ferguson had lethal cover.
So now I switch to non-lethal, which is our Taser.
You can't just run up and tackle the guy
because he's got the baseball bat
and a machete.
[Deputy Ferguson speaking]
[Taser crackling]
[panting]
I deployed my Taser,
deployed the first cartridge,
no effect.
Deployed the second cartridge.
No effect.
Due to his type of clothing, the Taser cartridges
were rendered ineffective,
and at that point, my heart kind of sank a little bit
because my less lethal option
is now gone.
[tires screeching]
[keys jingling]
[Deputy Ferguson shouting]
[exhales sharply]
He wouldn't stop in a vehicle.
He won't stop on foot.
And he's armed.
What is he going to do next?
[Deputy Ferguson] During a foot pursuit,
the suspect has all the advantage in the world.
You know, he's not wearing 35, 40 lbs. of gear extra.
[Corporal Artman speaking]
When somebody goes into a wooded area,
the concern is,
now you've got to go in and get him.
[Corporal Artman grunts]
[Corporal Artman speaking]
I lost sight of him right by a fence
in between two pastures.
Um...
He started heading back northbound
towards the main highway we had just left.
[Deputy Ferguson] I decided to go back to my car
and try and set up a perimeter
and get other units flooding the area
just so we can lock this particular section of woods down.
[dog barking]
[narrator] As more deputies respond,
Corporal Batts and his K9 Jax
join the hunt for Kropp.
[Corporal Batts speaking]
As far as I was concerned,
we were treating this
as if we were tracking an armed suspect.
So I brought two deputies with me.
Both of them have their rifles with them.
[Corporal Artman speaking]
[indistinct radio chatter]
[Corporal Batts] I have to stay very hyper focused on my dog,
on his behavior,
everything from the feeling and the lead in my hand
to paying attention to his nose,
to paying attention to his mouth.
My dog is searching for the freshest human odor.
My biggest fear was this guy with this machete
stabbing my dog
or coming out and trying to stab one of us.
[Corporal Artman] It's very frustrating.
There's no visual sign of the guy, you know.
Where in the world did he go?
[Corporal Artman panting]
[narrator] But then, K9 Jax picks up on something.
[rustling]
-[Corporal Batts speaking] -[K9 Jax barking]
[shouting]
[Corporal Artman shouting]
[Corporal Batts] Hands up!
[Corporal Batts shouting]
My heart just jumped
like crazy.
I look about 10 ft. up
and there's just a face poking out
in between the branches of the tree.
[Corporal Artman speaking]
[Corporal Batts speaking]
As soon as we got up close to that tree,
Jax took me right up to the tree.
I was confused as to why all of a sudden
it looked like he smelled something,
then he didn't and that was because
the individual's odor was up in the tree
blowing over on top of us.
[Corporal Batts speaking]
[Kropp speaking]
[Jax panting]
You've got to pay attention to the person's demeanor
and make sure that you're not elevating them
and hope that you're de-escalating them.
[Corporal Artman speaking]
[Corporal Batts speaking]
At this point in time,
he had climbed about 25 ft. up
inside that tree.
We have to be careful
that in our taking of the suspect into custody,
we don't injure him.
25 ft. up, that's a good drop.
[Kropp speaking]
[Corporal Batts speaking]
[narrator] Specialist negotiator
Sergeant Palmateer takes over.
I'm not necessarily concerned
about what events got him there
as much as focusing,
uh, on getting him to surrender peacefully.
[Sergeant Palmateer speaking]
It's very important to be able to use and articulate
good quality conversation,
no matter what the other person is experiencing.
[Kropp speaking]
[Sergeant Palmateer speaking]
[cell phone vibrating]
[narrator] More than six hours later,
Kropp is still refusing to cooperate.
When you're negotiating with someone,
you're dealing with a human life
that it doesn't matter if it takes five hours.
The prize is the peaceful resolution.
[Sergeant Palmateer speaking]
So going from daytime into nighttime,
now you've got a change in the elements,
and we didn't know
when this guy was going to come down.
We don't know if he may sleep up there
and try to stay up there all night
and maybe not even come down till the next day.
[narrator] But finally,
after ten hours of negotiation,
Kropp decides to surrender.
I think what ultimately got him down from the tree
was our focus on him as a father
doing the right thing.
And I think over the hours
and hours and hours of negotiating with him,
we were able to sink into his head that
whether he made a mistake or not that day,
he's still a father.
[Sergeant Palmateer speaking]
[Sergeant Palmateer] So, I believe that was the turning point.
It was definitely as just doing the right thing
because you're a good dad.
[narrator] Jessie James Kropp
is charged with two counts of arson,
theft of a motor vehicle,
resisting an officer
and attempting to elude police.
He's been declared mentally unfit for trial
and has been sent to a state hospital
until he is capable of appearing in court.
The case remains unadjudicated.
Ideally, he would have given up
right when we stopped him with stop sticks,
or he would have stopped
whenever we tried to pull him over.
But that's not the way it went down.
It was the result that we all wanted.
Nobody got hurt.
[Corporal Batts] Props off to my dog, you know.
I'm just the dummy at the end of the lead, you know.
He's the one that had the hard job here.
He's the one that located and found this guy.
Good boy.
[narrator] Also in Florida,
80 miles southeast in Orange County
is Orlando.
I've been working for Orange County
a little bit over three years.
Some of the things that I love about the job
is seeing the impact that we have on other people,
being a role model for kids.
As long as we're able to help
that person right there in that moment,
that's what really counts.
[Deputy Palacio] It was the end of the shift.
I was definitely looking forward
to just, you know, go home and and rest.
But we hear this call.
[male officer speaking]
[woman speaking]
[female officer speaking]
When we hear something like that
where it says engines and multiple units,
everybody goes a little bit faster.
We're the first arriving engine.
Then we've got to get ready for victim rescue.
[siren wailing]
[narrator] But ahead of the firefighters
and among the first on scene
are sheriff's deputies Lugo, Palacio and Puzynski.
The three-story block with 24 apartments
is being rapidly engulfed by flames.
[Deputy Puzynski speaking]
When I got there and I saw the black smoke,
I got out, I heard people screaming.
[woman crying]
It was like, "This is really real.
"You know, this is a real true fire."
[woman] Can they go look over there?
[siren wailing]
The sheriffs are automatically dispatched.
They're on the road in cars,
so they can obviously get a little bit faster.
So that's a blessing
because you could have them start evacuating, you know,
the areas that aren't on fire or smoky.
[indistinct shouting]
[officer speaking]
[Deputy Lugo speaking]
[Deputy Lugo] At first, it was like
one family that was on the balcony.
Then several other families
started coming out of the balcony.
[Deputy Lugo speaking]
[indistinct shouting]
We have to be able to handle that gap in time
when the Fire Department gets to the scene
and try to do what we can
as best as we can to help the people.
Trying to make it up
to that second level of the staircase,
you could actually feel, like, the blaze,
and you could inhale the black smoke,
actually feeling the heat.
It was raining like fire,
like drops of fire.
So, the building was obviously collapsed and...
[Deputy Lugo] The staircase was fully engulfed,
so we weren't able to climb up.
So I just gave words of encouragement
to the people that were on the balcony
until we were able to devise a plan
until Fire Department came.
[Deputy Lugo speaking]
[Deputy Palacio speaking]
[Deputy Puzynski speaking]
Someone said, "Let's start kicking doors."
[banging]
We didn't have time to, like, knock and just wait.
[Deputy Puzynski speaking]
[Deputy Palacio] That way, lady, that way.
[Deputy Puzynski speaking]
[Deputy Lugo] The incident is bigger than me.
I can't really worry about myself.
I can only worry about
the people who are being affected by the fire.
[officer speaking over radio]
[Deputy Puzynski speaking]
[man speaking]
[Deputy Puzynski speaking]
[Deputy Palacio speaking]
[man speaking]
As soon as we arrive,
we heard there were multiple victims trapped,
and my first goal was to find out
where are they trapped?
Who was it trapped? How many?
It's a tough decision,
but at the end of the day, the people that
are immediately next to the fire
are the people that need to come off first.
[indistinct conversation]
[Lt. Rubio] This apartment complex,
knowing that it was wood framed,
definitely can increase the chances
of the fire spreading rapidly.
Fire burns faster and hotter today
with the furniture and everything in it,
because it's all synthetic.
We have two, three, four, five minutes to respond
and put out the fire before it spreads rapidly.
[narrator] As the Fire Department
begins rescuing residents closest to the blaze...
[woman shouting]
...deputies hear a desperate cry
from a third floor balcony.
[woman speaking]
[Deputy Palacio] All right.
[Deputy Puzynski speaking]
We looked up
and she had the baby, like, hanging off the balcony.
[Deputy Lugo] I was devastated.
Getting her out of that building was a priority.
She's too young
to be in a tragic incident like that.
[Deputy Palacio] Everything else kind of stopped.
I could only hear the baby.
I know everybody was important.
But at that point, the baby is the main concern.
[Deputy Lugo] Come down the balcony right now.
[indistinct shouting]
[woman speaking]
[Deputy Palacio speaking]
[Deputy Puzynski speaking]
The apartment complex from the third story balcony
is probably like a 25 to 30 ft. drop.
If you fall from that, you're gonna break some bones.
[Deputy Lugo speaking]
[Deputy Puzynski speaking]
[woman speaking]
When your apartment
is engulfed in flames like that,
you have minutes,
literally minutes before it's too late.
[Deputy Puzynski speaking]
[Price] Kids are very vulnerable.
You can't explain to them,
"Cover your mouth."
You need to get to them quicker.
[Deputy Puzynski speaking]
[narrator] With no time to spare
Deputy William Puzynski risks his own life
to attempt a rescue.
Will just started taking off his vests
and was like, "Hey, I'm just gonna climb up
"and get the baby myself."
-[woman speaking] -[indistinct radio chatter]
[Deputy Puzynski speaking]
The third story, 30-35 ft.,
falling from that height you can break your neck,
break your arm, break your hip, break your back.
It's a significant fall.
[baby crying]
[Deputy Puzynski speaking]
This is bad, but it was the only option.
[woman speaking]
[Deputy Palacio] I thought he was gonna fall on top of me
because he was losing his balance.
I was trying to tell him, like,
"Hey, move here, or grab here, or grab there."
I was just telling him, "Be careful."
[Deputy Puzynski speaking]
[indistinct shouting]
[Deputy Palacio speaking]
[Deputy Palacio] When Puzynski got a hold of her,
now I'm worried about them, too,
because he was losing his balance.
[indistinct shouting]
[speaking indistinctly]
[Deputy Puzynski speaking]
[Deputy Palacio speaking]
[Deputy Palacio] As he grabbed the baby,
the baby is like almost hanging from one arm.
So I was like, "Please don't fall."
[Lt. Rubio] Carrying a child, it is very hard.
They're crying, they're flailing around
'cause they don't know what's going on.
They're scared.
[Deputy Puzynski speaking]
[Deputy Palacio speaking]
[Deputy Palacio] Our main goal, you know, was to save the baby.
She's safe.
[baby crying]
[Deputy Puzynski speaking]
-[exhales sharply] -[man speaking indistinctly]
[truck honking]
[Deputy Puzynski speaking]
It's okay, it's okay.
[narrator] Less than ten minutes later,
Mom and Grandma are also rescued
and reunited with the one-year-old.
[woman speaking]
[Deputy Puzynski speaking]
[narrator] It takes more than six hours
to fully extinguish the blaze.
The cause of the fire is still unknown.
Twenty people are left displaced,
but remarkably, no one is seriously injured.
[Price] This is definitely the biggest fire
that I've ever been on.
I still feel like it was yesterday.
That's how much I remember it.
[Lt. Rubio] I 100% relate to the deputy
climbing up and grabbing the kid.
He put himself at risk,
climbing up on the side of the apartment.
He did everything he could.
I would call the deputy's actions heroic.
[Deputy Palacio] Watching the baby reunite with Mom,
that felt amazing.
It was like our mission was complete.
It was a really good feeling.