Friday JohnKu – AKA – TGIF – Fri-Yay/Good News

~ John W. Howell

This week’s Good News is again from the Good News Network. Here is the complete story without editing.

25-Year-Old Runs into Burning Home and Saves 5 Kids–Gets Rewarded With $500K and ‘New Lease on Life’

By

Andy Corbley

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A man is being honored by a city as a hero after he charged into a house that had turned into a raging inferno to rescue a young girl.

A late-night argument with his girlfriend had a disgruntled 25-year-old Nicholas Bostic out driving aimlessly around his town when he saw the house completely engulfed in flames.

Running inside, his cries allegedly woke 4 children and a family friend from their sleep. The oldest of five, 18-year-old Seionna Barret, had gathered together her siblings and prepared to go down the stairs from the second floor where they encountered Nick.

Once outside however, Seionna told Bostic that her 6-year-old sister wasn’t with them. Running inside through the back door, Bostic described the fire in the Lafayette, Indiana home as having created a “black lagoon” of smoke on the ground floor.

But after checking all the bedrooms on the second floor, he still had not found the youngster.

“He moved to a window to exit the house when he heard a child’s cry coming from downstairs,” write city reporters who spoke with the rescuer. “Nicholas [had] an inner dialog with himself. He knew he was there to get that child out, and even though the fire and smoke downstairs frightened him, he would not quit.”

Wrapping a t-shirt around his mouth, he crawled through the blackness, following the sounds of the girl’s cries.

He then found her, proceeded back through the smoke, ran upstairs, smashed a window with his bare hand, and jumped down onto the lawn where a fire and rescue team had arrived and were beginning work to put out the fire.

Bostic suffered 1st-degree burns, a serious cut on his arm, and smoke inhalation, and would be airlifted to a hospital—the child was completely unharmed.

A GoFundMe was made for Bostic’s medical bills by his cousin, which shattered the $100,000 goal by amassing $556,000 for a hero whom the city plans to honor at the next Lafayette Aviators minor league baseball game.

Bostic says the experience brought him a “new lease on life,” that has him ready to play football or drift a sports car. Indeed he spent enough time in that burning house to have several lives flash before his eyes.

Here’s a video of Nick talking about the rescue.

So the good news here is that Nick didn’t hesitate to even think about saving the family. Today’s JohnKu talks about thinking too hard about things. I hope you have a great weekend.

Heroes by John W. Howell © 2022

Heroes share in common,

A no-thought action response. . .

Maybe the best way.

72 thoughts on “Friday JohnKu – AKA – TGIF – Fri-Yay/Good News”

  7. A brave guy for sure. Even though scared, he crawled through the blackness and acted. Wonderful story, and so fantastic that the crowd funding had such a positive response too. Thanks for sharing this uplifting news, John. Have a wonderful weekend 💕🙂

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  11. It is best they don’t think about it. many a hero has gotten an awful case of tremors or even passed out after realizing what they just did.
    Great story!

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  22. What a wonderful story. I think most would just call it in not run into the burning house. That little girl is lucky he did.

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  27. Can you imagine how hard a tragedy like that would have been for the family? Good on Nicholas! Pretty ironic that he might not have been there except for his fight with his girlfriend.

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