[narrator] In Ohio, a hostage situation...
[officer speaking]
He's got a gun right to the temple of her head.
[narrator] ...runs out of control.
[officer speaking]
We're sitting there in disbelief.
He's gone.
[narrator] In Maryland...
[Officer Dia Lawrence speaking]
[narrator] ...armed robbers escape.
[officer speaking]
My adrenaline is pumping.
[officer speaking]
[narrator] And in Indiana...
a highway inferno...
[Trooper Titus speaking]
[officer speaking]
[narrator] ...with the unlikeliest victims.
[Trooper Titus speaking]
Just see this giant animal start to come out.
[indistinct radio dialogue]
[officer] Yo, cop, come outside!
[narrator] In Ohio, 60 mi north of Columbus
is Richland County.
[Lt. Jim Nicholson] Within Richland County,
we have a lot of vehicles that are stolen.
And we have times to get in pursuits with these vehicles.
Sometimes they comply, but some they don't.
[intense music playing]
[police siren wailing]
[Lt. Nicholson] I hear on my scanner, the state highway patrol
is in pursuit of a vehicle on State Route 30,
coming west into the Richland County Mansfield area.
They are requesting other units.
-[radio beeps] -[officer speaking]
Outside of it being a stolen vehicle,
we have no other knowledge as to who the person is,
or why this person is running.
-[radio beeps] -[officer speaking]
[Lt. Nicholson] We don't know what their intentions are.
It has tinted windows,
so we don't even know how many people are in the vehicle.
-[tires screech] -[officer speaking]
[Lt. Nicholson] It is getting serious.
Someone is gonna get killed.
This is an individual that needs stopped.
[officer speaking]
[narrator] One of Lieutenant Nicholson's new recruits joins the chase.
-[radio beeps] -[officer speaking]
[Det. Garrett Nedrow] I just had a few months on the job.
This was my first big pursuit that I was ever in.
I had just gotten off 30, and I knew that I was close.
I flipped around my cruiser.
Adrenaline was pumping through my body.
-[radio beeps] -[officer speaking]
[Det. Nedrow] He was able to swerve over and almost cause an accident
with that trooper to get onto that on-ramp.
[officer speaking]
[Det. Nedrow] For a normal civilian in a car,
you never expect someone to be going 100 miles an hour,
cutting you off or getting in an accident to possibly hurt you.
And there's nothing that really prepares a person for that.
[officer speaking]
Thirty ninety.
[Det. Nedrow] After he hit that car, I got confident
that he was getting ready to stop.
[officer speaking]
[Det. Nedrow] Running through my mind is, "Is he gonna get out?
Is he gonna start shooting us,
or is he gonna do something crazy?"
[officer speaking]
[Sgt. Mager] When we rolled up,
the guy was yelling from the vehicle.
So we knew that maybe,
"Hey, this just isn't gonna end with a quick, simple arrest."
[officer speaking]
[Sgt. Mager speaking]
[officer speaking]
[Det. Nedrow] I remember hearing another officer say,
"Get ready. He's gonna come out of there possibly firing a gun.
Just be ready."
My heart just sinks.
I'm just like, "This is really happening. Like, this is real."
I might not go home today.
[officer speaking]
[Lt. Nicholson speaking]
[officer speaking]
[Lt. Nicholson] When we heard over the radio,
there's a female in the vehicle,
my anxiety level went sky high.
[Sgt. Mager speaking]
[Lt. Nicholson] I don't know. Is this a hostage?
I don't know if this is someone who's assisting him.
Heck, it could have been his wife or a girlfriend.
[officer speaking]
[suspect speaking]
[Sgt. Mager speaking]
If they want to go out in a blaze of glory,
they're gonna try to take out as many people as possible.
That starts to amp up the situation a little bit.
[man speaking]
[officer speaks indistinctly]
[gunshot]
[Sgt. Mager speaking]
[officer speaking]
-[radio beeps] -[officer speaking]
We literally thought the passenger in that vehicle had just been shot.
[Sgt. Mager speaking]
[officer speaking]
[officer 1 speaking]
[officer speaking]
Oh, he's got her.
[officer] Coming out.
[officer] Nothing happened.
[officer 1 speaking]
[officer over radio] Yes, sir.
[Lt. Nicholson] He's got her around the neck.
And it appeared he had a gun right to the temple over her head.
[Det. Nedrow] It changes everything.
You're thinking about one person as a suspect,
and then after that, you've got another person whose life's in danger.
[Sgt. Mager speaking]
[officer speaks]
[Sgt. Mager speaking]
[officer] Watch crossfire, watch crossfire.
[explosion]
[officer speaking]
[Sgt. Mager] Did he set something on fire inside that vehicle?
What's going on?
A lot of black smoke.
The wind was blowing, and it actually almost created a smoke screen.
[Sgt. Mager and Lt. Nicholson converse]
And that's when me and Lieutenant Nicholson
started to come up with a game plan
that we would get behind the houses to the north of us.
Lieutenant Nicholson is a trained sniper.
I laid my less lethal shotgun down and picked up my AR rifle.
Our main concern is to separate him from his weapon.
Separate him from her.
[narrator] But as officers approached the house...
the suspect catches them off guard.
[Lt. Nicholson speaking]
[officer speaks indistinctly over radio]
[officer speaking]
[Sgt. Mager speaking]
[Lt. Nicholson] All of our vehicles have weapons in 'em.
So that was one of my concerns.
I do not want them anywhere near one of these vehicles.
[officer speaking]
[Sgt. Mager speaking]
[Lt. Nicholson] I need to get a better angle at this to see what I can do
to separate him from her if I ever am afforded the opportunity.
I'm looking at what I've always been trained.
Specific areas of the head is what I'm aiming for.
[officer speaking]
[officer 1 speaking]
[Sgt. Mager and Lt. Nicholson conversing]
[Sgt. Mager] We knew if we didn't try something,
that this could have ended up being a lot worse.
By going pro, it gives Lieutenant Nicholson
a better shooting platform and more stability
to be able to take such a difficult shot.
[Lt. Nicholson] Because the two were so close together, head to head
and he's constantly spinning her body,
it made it very difficult.
[gunshot]
[Sgt. Mager speaking]
[intense music playing]
He made a mistake and looked over his shoulder, back.
She stepped forward. He did not move.
And I took that moment of opportunity and fired one round.
[gunshot]
And I hit him right in that leg-hip area.
I watched him as he spun around with her,
and he kneels somewhat to the ground.
But he got back on his feet, and he started now at a rapid pace,
going towards these two parked state highway patrol cruisers.
This guy is very determined to get out of this situation
and he'll do anything that it requires to do that.
[Lt. Nicholson] I'm looking constantly for my second shot.
[Sgt. Mager speaking]
It made me feel like I failed my mission.
I'm not gonna be able to stop him.
[officer speaking]
[Sgt. Mager] What's next? What do we do from here?
You only have seconds to do this.
I was probably 60 plus yards from the suspect, and I had a good sight.
[gunshot]
[officer speaks indistinctly] Shots fired.
[narrator] The suspect is hit again.
This time in his arm.
But continues his escape in a police cruiser.
[officer speaking]
[officer 1 speaking]
You're sitting there in disbelief.
He's gone.
Was I surprised when he floored it?
Absolutely.
It was a very disheartening feeling.
This individual is right back where he started.
Now and in an even better vehicle with possibly more weapons.
[siren wailing]
[officer speaking]
[Officer Daniel Simmons] It's ultimately the worst case scenario.
And once he got out of eyesight of everybody,
nobody really truly knew where he went.
The danger aspect is they have the radio,
so they're listening to what we're saying,
and they know that they're being followed.
I figured he was gonna try to get back to a highway.
We were traveling in excess of 140 mile an hour, trying to catch up to him.
And then, I saw the vehicle stopped.
I was ready for a standoff.
[narrator] But the suspect has made a surprise move.
[Officer Simmons] I saw the hostage laying
face down on the side of the road by the guardrail.
[narrator] He has released the female hostage,
but gone on to target a vehicle with two women.
[officer speaking]
[woman speaking]
[Officer Simmons] After he released the hostage,
the suspect had pulled over a vehicle.
He pulled them over like he was a police officer.
Then he actually jumped on the hood of the car,
ordered them out at gunpoint.
I can only imagine how terrifying it was for those two females.
[officer speaking]
[narrator] While the carjacking victims are checked for injuries,
officers speak to the hostage.
[Officer Simmons] The female hostage that was laying on the ground
was initially handcuffed,
because we didn't know what her part was in this.
Was she a willing participant, or was she truly a hostage?
-[radio beeps] -[officer speaking]
[hostage speaks]
[narrator] The hostage name's the suspect as Jeremy Reynolds.
[officer speaking]
[Officer Simmons] It was unknown what he took from the cruiser with him.
He had access to an AR-15 and a shotgun at the time.
[officer speaking]
[Officer Simmons] Highway Patrol is setting up spike strips.
They stick in the tires to allow the tires to deflate,
slowly over time to bring the vehicle to a safe stoppage.
[officer speaking]
He ended up going down through the median
and crossing over to the opposite lane of travel.
I was mentally preparing myself for a large wreck.
[indistinct]
[Officer Simmons] The suspect took a turn on to a country road.
One of the state highway patrol cars ended up just ramming him off the roadway.
It was now us versus him.
We knew he was a very desperate person on the run.
And so we were preparing for the worst.
But with both hands up, the suspect was yelling that he was done.
[officer speaking]
[officer 1 speaking]
At that time, I pulled up and grabbed my trauma bag.
I was able to get pressure and get his leg wrapped up.
He had just put all of our lives at risk.
Every citizen he passed at risk, his hostage at risk.
But even though he is a suspect of a crime, he is still a human being,
and part of our job is to protect human life.
[Det. Nedrow] Reynolds pled guilty to multiple charges,
including kidnapping and grand theft of a motor vehicle.
He was sentenced to 16 years in prison.
[Officer Simmons] We found out later that he had just been released from prison.
He had just gotten out after a relatively long stint.
So his mindset was, "I'm not going back."
[narrator] The female hostage was cleared of any wrongdoing.
The two carjacking victims were covered in the suspect's blood,
but only sustained minor injuries.
[Det. Nedrow] Reflecting back, while that was my first big pursuit,
nothing really prepares you for that situation until you're in it.
In this job, you don't know how you're gonna react until you're put there.
Everybody stood their ground, did what they were trained to do
and ended the situation as peacefully as possible.
[narrator] On the border of Maryland is Baltimore County
and the suburb of Parkville.
[Officer Hunter Laisure] Working nights in Park feels great.
You get more of the actual police calls.
It's not a lot of neighbors calling the police
'cause leaves blew into someone else's yard.
You get to help more people
than just be a counselor, be Jerry Springer.
You're actually being a police officer.
It's a little after 11:00.
You see three subjects walking in.
It looks like they are scoping the place out.
You could see them showing a product to the pharmacist.
It looks like they're distracting him.
They're telling him to give 'em all the prescription pain pills.
Pain pills are easy to sell on the streets.
I know at one point it was $1 a milligram.
They take hostages, move them all to the front.
It's a lot easier to keep an eye on all of them together.
That way, they cannot call 911 or communicate to get help.
[narrator] Next, the armed suspects forced the pharmacists
to empty the cash registers.
And then continue stealing pills.
I think they believe they have all the time in the world.
[narrator] Security personnel monitoring the surveillance video
call 911...
who dispatch two officers.
[Officer Dia Lawrence] Well, when I received the call
for the armed robbery in progress,
I am approximately two miles away from the business.
911 dispatch advises that at least two armed subjects
are inside of the business, retrieving medication.
My adrenaline is pumping.
[911 operator speaking]
[Officer Lawrence speaking]
Officer Lawrence pulled into the first entrance to the lot.
I expected him to be out front waiting for me
to go in together when I got there.
But he was already making his way into the building.
[Officer Lawrence speaking]
[gunshot]
[Officer Lawrence speaking]
[speaking over radio]
[Officer Laisure] I can hear him yell on the radio.
You know right there,
the situation is pretty intense.
And my heart started pumping,
my senses definitely heightened up.
[indistinct radio chatter]
You gotta get there.
[Officer Lawrence speaking]
[Officer Laisure] I'll get in as soon as I can and...
now I see the black male subject not really listening to anything
we're telling him to do.
[Officer Lawrence speaking]
[Officer Laisure speaking]
[narrator] Uncertain of the number of robbers,
the officers must detain this male suspect
before they can clear the rest of the building.
[Officer Lawrence speaking]
[Officer Laisure speaking]
[Officer Lawrence speaking]
When we give someone a lawful command
and they don't respond,
now I fear for my safety.
[Officer Laisure] You could tell he was thinking
about doing something besides listening to us.
You could see his right hand start to come down...
to his pant line.
[Officer Lawrence speaking]
[Officer Laisure speaking]
I would like to believe he wasn't going for a firearm.
[Officer Laisure speaking]
Are you hurt?
[Officer Lawrence speaking]
[Officer Laisure speaking]
[Officer Lawrence] However, I did locate a firearm
in his possession in his pants pocket.
That firearm was loaded.
[Officer Laisure] What?
[narrator] One suspect is arrested,
and the hostages are freed.
[Officer Laisure] I thought, "Okay, this went well.
Who else are we looking for?"
That's when the pharmacist comes up.
[indistinct conversation]
[pharmacist speaking]
[Officer Laisure speaking]
-[pharmacist speaking] -[Officer Lawrence] 28, pharmacist survived.
[pharmacist speaking]
[Officer Laisure speaking]
[Officer Lawrence speaking]
[Officer Laisure] At that moment, I did wanna get up
and catch the bad guys.
[Officer Lawrence speaking]
-[Officer Laisure speaking] -[pharmacist speaking]
[Officer Laisure speaking]
Just through being on the job,
you realize if there's one gun,
there's more than one gun.
Or who's to say they're not willing to use it to get away?
That kinda puts everybody's life at risk.
[narrator] With two potentially armed fugitives on the loose...
-[siren wailing] -[indistinct radio chatter]
[narrator] ...Baltimore County Police get a chopper in the air.
[Officer Steindler] So, I saw the movie Top Gun
when I was in fifth grade.
I thought that was pretty awesome.
I knew I wanted to be a pilot,
I knew also wanted to be a police officer.
So it just naturally fits me.
With us being dispatched to an armed robbery...
time is of the essence.
[officer speaking over radio]
[Officer Dan Wolf] My specific role on that flight
was to communicate with the ground officers and with dispatch.
And then Officer Steindler was in the back
operating the camera.
[officer speaking]
[Officer Wolf speaking]
[officer 2 speaking]
We relayed information that the security company
was tracking their getaway vehicle.
[Officer Steindler speaking]
[officer speaking]
[Officer Steindler speaking]
[Officer Wolf, indistinct]
[Officer Steindler] As we begin to receive tracking information,
we begin to fly towards those locations.
-[radio beeps] -[officer over radio]
[Officer Steindler] Unfortunately, with any sort of location update...
they may be precisely at that location...
or they may be miles ahead of it.
-[radio beeps] -[Officer Steindler speaking]
[Officer Wolf speaking]
[Officer Steindler] We try to anticipate
which direction these suspects may be going.
It is similar to a puzzle.
At first, you see five vehicles
heading southbound on Belair Road.
And as the package continued along Belair Road...
vehicles turn off, so we narrow it down.
-[radio beeps] -[Officer Steindler speaking]
And typically, suspects, when they're fleeing from a scene,
are gonna be driving very fast, very erratically.
But in this case, none of the vehicles
are exhibiting any behavior out of the ordinary.
We felt that we had the element of surprise,
and we want to attempt to effect a stop.
[speaking over radio]
As patrol officers are arriving in the area,
and they're about to effect a stop,
it gets extremely tense.
We know that the suspects are either going
to fight, flight or flee.
-[radio static] -[Officer Steindler speaking]
[Officer Wolf] The worst case-scenario for us
would be, you know, getting into some sort of gunfight
with our patrol officers when they pull up.
But I've also seen where, even if they don't have a weapon,
they'll utilize the vehicle as a weapon.
[Officer Steindler speaking]
[dispatcher speaking]
-[radio beeps] -[Officer Steindler speaking]
Moravia and Belair.
Stationary at Moravia and Belair.
[officer speaking]
[officer 2 speaking]
[Officer Steindler over radio] Moravia and Belair.
Stationary... [continues indistinctly]
We see the suspect running, we know that their plan
is not going as they thought it would.
They're desperate at this point.
[dog barking]
When they run, you know, it doesn't take too much
for them to turn around and use that firearm on you.
[officers and man grunting]
-[officer speaking] -[bleep]
[officer 2 speaking]
[officer 3 speaking]
You have to always be ready,
you cannot be complacent.
[dog barking]
'Cause when you're complacent...
you can be killed.
[Officer Steindler] Although the foot pursuit only lasted a few seconds,
for us, it feels like an eternity.
As they fled, they began to round a corner,
around a series of townhouses.
[dog barking]
[Officer Steindler] And that's an extremely dangerous position
to be in as a patrol officer
'cause you don't know, as you come around that corner,
what they're going to walk into.
[officer speaking]
[radio beeps]
-[indistinct radio chatter] -[officer speaking]
-[officer 2] Yeah-- -[officer 3 speaking]
-[radio beeps] -[officer 4] I love it.
[Officer Laisure] When the information came across the radio
that the other suspects were captured and arrested,
it's a euphoric feeling.
[officer speaking]
-[man speaking] -[officer speaking]
[man speaking]
-[indistinct radio chatter] -[dog barking]
[officer speaking]
[officer 2] No [bleep].
[Officer Steindler] It's a huge relief, first and foremost,
'cause we didn't lose him,
and we put somebody away who needs to be put away.
[over radio] ...headquarters. We got him sequestered.
[officer speaking]
[man 2 speaking]
[officer speaking]
[man 2 speaking]
[officer speaking]
[Officer Steindler] At the time of the bailout, it was very unusual
that the driver didn't bail out.
In fact, they're the only one
that's guaranteed to bail out of a car, typically.
In this case, they used an Uber.
[officer speaking]
[Officer Laisure] They ended up in a rideshare
because the gentleman we had arrested in the front of the store
had the keys to their getaway vehicle.
I don't know necessarily that the driver knew
what he was getting involved in.
Being so close to Baltimore City,
I'm sure he's seen a lot of weird things.
But when two people get in your vehicle
with bags full of prescription drugs...
it's probably a red flag.
[narrator] The suspects...
are Taiquan Da'jon Fuqua...
David Roosevelt Fulgham III...
and Dylan Smith.
All three plead guilty to armed robbery...
and use of a firearm in a felony crime.
They are all sentenced to 20 years.
The taxi driver is not charged.
[Officer Wolf] When the suspects are in custody
and nobody got hurt...
[officer speaking]
[Officer Wolf] ...we couldn't be happier about that.
This is exactly the kind of call I got on the job for.
We got to drive our cars fast.
We got to have our adrenaline up.
We got to lock up the bad guy, all three bad guys.
It's everything a good call needs.
It's exactly why I signed up.
[narrator] In central Indiana...
is Grant County...
and the city of Marion.
Trooper Titus is on the night shift,
accompanied by his friend, Wesley Kushman.
I've actually put an application
to join the state police of Indiana here.
So, he invited me on a ride-along with him
so I could get an understanding
of what that job looks like more.
That was actually his first,
uh, ride-along with me that night.
I decided to patrol Marion city to show my ride-along, Wesley,
some different types of things 'cause people often think
of state police as just highway patrol.
It was a pretty calm night,
unusually for a Friday night in town,
and then I decided to take him out to the interstate.
As soon as we pulled on the interstate, we saw the semi on fire.
[dispatcher speaking]
[Trooper Titus speaking]
[siren wailing]
It was shocking to see something like that.
My first thought was that, "I hope everybody got out of there."
[indistinct radio chatter]
[Trooper Titus speaking]
[Wesley speaking]
[narrator] Wesley stays by the patrol car...
while Trooper Titus heads for the burning semi.
[Trooper Titus speaking]
[Wesley] You could see that the fire was large,
and it was a dangerous situation.
-[explosion] -[Trooper Titus speaking]
[bleeps]
[Wesley] The tire blows up,
and you can hear that loud pop behind him.
I was worried about Trooper Titus,
as he was going in.
You never know if the vehicle is gonna explode
or if something is in there that you don't expect.
[man] Uno, dos, tres. Come on. Open, open.
[Trooper Titus] Okay.
[man speaking]
[Trooper Titus speaking]
[man speaking]
I just see him pulling on something.
[man speaking]
[Trooper Titus speaking]
And as it gets out, you start to see the back
and you start to see the shape of this thing.
[Trooper Titus speaking]
[Wesley] And then I just see this giant animal start to come out.
And we're like, "Oh, that's a... that's camel."
You don't expect to see a camel in the middle of Indiana,
but there it was.
It was definitely a first for me.
[narrator] The trailer is packed full of circus animals,
with their trainer standing dangerously close.
[indistinct conversation]
[Trooper Titus speaking]
[man] All right.
[narrator] There's just minutes to get the exotic animals to safety
before the semi's completely engulfed.
[Trooper Titus speaking]
[narrator] Deputy Kennedy arrives to help.
[Deputy Joshua Kennedy speaking]
[Trooper Titus speaking]
Shock and awe, I've...
I've never seen something that large up close.
[Trooper Titus bleeps]
[Deputy Kennedy] A dumbstruck moment.
[Trooper Titus speaking]
You know, I'm there to watch. I'm not there to participate
in any of the... the police activities, right?
[Trooper Titus speaking]
[Wesley] But I run up to help Titus,
and I hold on to the reins of the... the camel.
[Trooper Titus speaking]
I was very concerned about the animals getting hit by cars.
[Deputy Kennedy speaking]
[Trooper Titus speaking]
[narrator] But it's not just camels that need to be rescued.
Five panicked zebras and a mini-horse
are still locked in the back of the semi.
[Wesley] This whole time, you can see the fire is spreading.
[Deputy Kennedy] Come here.
We needed to get this done and get out fast.
[Trooper Titus speaking]
[zebras braying]
[Trooper Titus speaking]
-[Trooper Titus] I got it. -[man speaking]
-[Trooper Titus speaking] -[man] Hey.
[Trooper Titus speaking]
[man speaking]
-[indistinct radio chatter] -[explosion]
[Deputy Kennedy speaking]
[zebra braying]
[narrator] Batteries and fuel stored on the truck are beginning to explode,
with zebras still locked inside.
[Trooper Titus speaking]
[officer] Okay. Come on. Come on.
As I walk to the truck,
I could see the semi was fully engulfed,
and it was starting to come into the trailer as well.
[zebra braying]
[Trooper Titus speaking]
-[man speaking] -[Trooper Titus] Come on.
The animals were fighting so hard to not get out of the trailer.
They were so scared.
[Trooper Titus grunting]
[man speaking]
[Trooper Titus speaking and grunts]
[man] Come on, Rocky, come on.
-[Trooper Titus speaking] -[man speaking]
[Trooper Titus speaking]
[Deputy Kennedy speaking]
[Trooper Titus speaking]
[coughing]
The air was very thick.
[indistinct conversation]
[man speaking]
It had a lot of burning chemicals from the trailer.
-[indistinct conversation] -[all coughing]
[Trooper Titus] And then once the hay started catching on fire,
the smoke began to get even more thick.
I didn't think about how it felt breathing that in.
My goal was just to get the animals out,
and I'll worry about me later.
[Sgt. Meeks] Get 'em out.
-Go. -[Trooper Titus speaking]
[narrator] All the circus animals have now been freed.
But with fire crews still several minutes away, danger remains.
-[Trooper Titus] Come on, baby. -[indistinct conversation]
[Sgt. Meeks speaking]
-[man whistling] -[Sgt. Meeks speaking]
[Trooper Titus speaking]
[indistinct conversation]
[Deputy Curtis Jones speaking]
[siren wailing]
[Deputy Jones speaking]
-[siren wailing] -[Deputy Jones speaking]
The first fire truck on scene kind of spooked most of the animals.
[Trooper Titus speaking]
[braying]
It was just a very kind of chaotic scene.
[Deputy Jones speaking] Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
The zebra I was holding,
he decided to charge to the opposite direction.
[siren wailing]
[Deputy Jones speaking]
[officer speaking]
Luckily, he got to the guardrail and kind of slowed down.
[Sgt. Meeks speaking]
The fire trucks got in there and were able to start
putting out the flames pretty quickly.
[narrator] The fire crew pulls fencing panels
from the truck to corral the animals.
[Sgt. Meeks speaking]
-[man] The zebra? -[Sgt. Meeks speaking]
[Trooper Titus] My main concern was containing the animals
and trying to keep them from running away.
-[officer] Oh, okay. All right. -[Sgt. Meeks] Do you have...
[man speaking]
[Trooper Titus speaking]
-[man speaking] -[Trooper Titus] You got it.
[man] Two zebras here. Two zebras here.
Once we got the trailer and started loading the zebras,
it was... it was kind of a good feeling.
[Deputy Kennedy] Come on, get in. Come on.
[officer speaking]
[man speaking]
[Deputy Kennedy speaking]
[man speaking]
They were all transported back up to Fort Wayne to, uh, be in the circus the next day.
[Wesley speaking]
[narrator] Investigators determined the fire
was started by a mechanical malfunction.
Trooper Titus and Deputy Kennedy
are treated for smoke inhalation.
Remarkably, no humans or animals are seriously injured.
[Sgt. Meeks] Deputy Kennedy and, uh, Trooper Titus
definitely risked their lives to... to save the animals.
[Deputy Jones] ISP trooper ended up getting a photo
from the circus a couple of days later,
and it was all the animals that we ended up saving performing.
That was kind of a real nice moment.
-[Trooper Titus] Come on, boy! -[man] Come on, Rocky, come on.
-[Trooper Titus] Whoo! Whoo! -[man] Vista Rambo.
[Wesley] I definitely did not think that the policing would involve
circus animals and trucks that were on fire.
[explosion]
[Trooper Titus] That is one of the strangest moments
in my law enforcement career.
[braying]
[officer 1] You're okay.
[officer 2] They're super, super fluffy.
[narrator] In Oregon...
If we don't try to rescue him, it is going to result
in his death.
[motor humming]
[gunshots]
[narrator] ...and in Texas...
[gunshots]
[indistinct radio chatter]
This could be the day that we don't make it home.
[gunshots]
[sirens wailing]