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Toronto & GTA Toronto cop recognized for heroic rescue of two men from Scarborough fire Published Sep 29, 2021 • 1 minute read Toronto Police Const. Alexander Yuanidis, this year's winner of the 54th Annual Police Officer of the Year Award, on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021. Photo by Veronica Henri /Toronto Sun/Postmedia Network With a radiant smile, a Toronto Police officer modestly recalls the heroic act that led to him being honoured as this year’s winner of the 54th Annual Police Officer of the Year award. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Exclusive sports coverage by Bruce Garrioch, Ken Warren and Tim Baines, in-depth crime and news from Gary Dimmock and city life coverage from arts writers Lynn Saxberg and Peter Hum. Plus, daily newsletters and events. Unlimited online access to Ottawa Sun and 15 news sites with one account. 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Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. “I think that night was a set of very fortunate circumstances — that I was so close, I knew the area, but anyone in my situation would have done the same thing,” Const. Alexander Yuanidis said Wednesday.. In May 2020, the 43 Division officer arrived on the scene of a three-alarm fire in Scarborough and saw a fireball explode on the north side of the home. Two men were stranded on a second-floor deck because there weren’t any stairs Yuanidis’s “heart was pounding” and the “adrenaline kicked in” as he secured a 12-foot ladder from a neighbour. After helping the younger man down the ladder, Yuanidis rescued the second man who had limited mobility and needed assistance. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. The 16-year veteran of the service “punched out the spindles of the railing” with his fists in order to save the 85-year-old. Sugy Kodeeswaran, a family member, later commented on the tragedy “Our family owes officer Alex a great debt because he saved the patriarch of the family with three children, their partners and eight grandchildren.” Yuanidis was honoured with the prestigious award for his “calculated risk, acting decisively and bravely, while putting his personal safety at risk in order to save others.” “It’s a huge honour,” said Yuanidis, who was quick to point out his fellow officers perform acts of heroism on a daily basis in the city. Comments Postmedia is committed to maintaining a lively but civil forum for discussion and encourage all readers to share their views on our articles. Comments may take up to an hour for moderation before appearing on the site. We ask you to keep your comments relevant and respectful. 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When Los Angeles County firefighter Derek Bart was diagnosed with terminal cancer, he stepped into a StoryCorps recording booth to talk about how he wanted to be remembered. At that moment, he thought of someone else, an 8-year-old girl he'd rescued from a house fire in BART It was a cold, windy night. And the wind knocked the power out. And so they were using candles to see, and they went to bed. When we got there, the room I went to was fully involved with fire. So OK, if anybody is in here, they're unsurvivable. But I checked the next bedroom, which had bunk beds. So OK, children. Kids like to hide in the closet. They hide under the beds. They hide in the bathtub. So I looked across the hallway. And in a bathtub, I see this young girl. Her name is Myeshia. And I notice that her face and hands are burned. So I run there and grab her and throw her over my shoulders, go down the stairs. And it's one of those scenes where you just say, God, you know, please get me out of here. You know, this is considered going to the hospital, but it was too emotional. So I didn't go. But for years, I always wondered how Myeshia was. Twelve years later, I found myself in Walmart. And this girl walks by me. Her face and hands had obviously been burned. She has a name that says Myeshia. She says, hi. How may I help you? I say, if I get too personal, please stop me. But February 1993, I went in a fire, and I pulled out a little girl. And she starts crying. I'm crying. She says, oh, my God. That's me.SOUNDBITE OF MUSICINSKEEP OK, we're not done. Don't cry yet because shortly after this recording, Bart learned he'd been misdiagnosed. He was going to survive. So he came back to StoryCorps, this time with OATES You actually remembered me, my name. And I was shocked because out of all the thousands of people throughout your career, you still thought about me. I was just curious to know, like, why me?BART When you're in the fire service, you see a lot of tragedy. And the people that are alive today - you always think about them. And you always want to know if they're You know, of course, I had some health issues. But I'm You know, the image I have of you was somebody that was just determined to fight, to make it. I want you to know that you've carried me through some tough times. For that, I'm forever I appreciate being able to be a part of It amazes me just to know that the memory from 30 years ago is still with you. And that means that a You know, it was a brief moment that you and I had, our encounter back in 1993. But I hope you always remember how valued your are, that people care about I thank you, and I thank God every day. I cherish this.SOUNDBITE OF MUSICINSKEEP Myeshia Oates with Derek Bart. Their StoryCorps interview is archived at the Library of Congress. Copyright © 2021 NPR. All rights reserved. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. Accuracy and availability may vary. The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record. Two Atlanta police officers bravely saved a man from a burning car that plowed through two homes and crashed into a tree, intense bodycam footage shows. The video shows the hero cops — identified as Officers W. Adams and M. Todd — frantically responding to a car fire early Sunday in the city’s Bankhead section and finding the driver trapped inside a smoldering car. “He’s still in there!” a witness says as the cops rush toward the red hatchback engulfed in flames. “Somebody get him out!” The officers try to open the driver’s door, but the handle is missing, so they pull the man behind the wheel to safety through the window, which they shattered to save him, police said. “Come on, come on, sir!” one officer says while grabbing the driver, who appeared to be unconscious at one point, the frantic clip shows. The police officers had to shatter the car window in order to pull the man to of Atlanta Police Departmen Police said the car had “gone airborne” and went through two homes — including one that was occupied — before hitting a tree and bursting into flames. The car crashed through two homes and into a tree before bursting into flames. City of Atlanta Police Departmen “The quick thinking and bravery exhibited by Officer Adams and Officer Todd saved the occupant from a tragic outcome,” police said in a statement. “The officers had no idea if that fire would result in an explosion which would put their lives in danger, instead they were focused on saving the driver.” The driver appeared to be unconscious at one of Atlanta Police Departmen The clip shows the “humble yet heroic” actions of police officers that “never make media headlines” despite being part of their everyday duties, department officials said. “We could not be prouder of these two officers,” Atlanta police said. “Their response to this incident exemplifies our highest ideals and training … The city is safer with these two heroes on patrol. Job well done!” The driver remains unidentified. City of Atlanta Police Departmen Police didn’t release the name of the driver or indicate if he faced any charges in the harrowing crash. He miraculously survived and only had minor injuries, WAGA reported. An Atlanta police spokesman told The Post early Wednesday he didn’t have additional information to immediately provide. You have searched for, Showing 15154 resultsAll15154Articles15138Videos16rescue from fire News Blaze at hospital, 20 babies rescued TNN / Jun 10, 2023, 0811 IST Around 40 firefighters in the early hours of Friday rescued 20 babies from a hospital for newborns in Dwarka that caught fire because of a suspected short circuit. Fire in Ghaziabad multi-storey building kills two; nine rescued / Jun 12, 2023, 1616 IST Two women, including a senior citizen, were killed in a fire at a multi-storey building here in Uttar Pradesh, while nine others were rescued Monday morning, officials said. All the 11 people, who were trapped in the fire, belonged to the same family. The fire broke out around am, they said. Ghaziabad 2 dead, 8 rescued as massive fire breaks out in building in Loni Border TNN / Jun 12, 2023, 0851 IST A massive fire broke out in a house in Lal Bagh colony in Loni in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad on Monday. Four people stuck in CP resto-bar lift; rescued by fire brigade / May 18, 2023, 2256 IST In a "tough" one-hour-long operation, fire department rescued four people who remained stuck inside the lift of a resto bar in Connaught Place. Fire breaks out in building in Mumbai's Kalbadevi, over 50 rescued, 1 injured TNN / Jun 09, 2023, 0915 IST A level three fire broke out in a ground-plus-six-floored building at Zaveri Bazar area in Mumbai, in the early hours of Friday. A 40-year-old man got injured in the fire incident. Over 50 people, who were trapped, were safely evacuated by the Mumbai fire brigade using the staircase of the adjacent building. 20 newborns rescued after fire breaks out at hospital in west Delhi's Janakpuri / Jun 09, 2023, 0956 IST The fire was brought under control at Further investigation will be done, said Atul Garg, director, Delhi Fire Service. Fire breaks out in Chennai home; family members rescued TNN / Jun 05, 2023, 1239 IST Woman rescued from window ledge after fire breaks out in Mumbai flat TNN / Mar 08, 2023, 0538 IST A 30-year-old woman was rescued after fire broke out in her fourth floor flat in a stilt+16-storied Ugam building near Pant Nagar police station, Ghatkopar East, at around 100-year-old Chennai's Pattalam building collapses TNN / May 03, 2023, 0734 IST A dilapidated two-storey building in Pattalam near Purasaiwalkam, which is said to more than a century old, collapsed on Tuesday morning due to incessant overnight rain. No one was injured in the incident. Soon after the incident around 9. 30am, police rushed to the spot as did corporation officials and fire and rescue services personnel. P K Sekarbabu, minister for CMDA, a lso visited the spot. The building hadfallen in on itself and barricades were placed all around the site. Traffic was stopped temporarily on Perambur Barracks Road and was resumed after half an hour. 3 families rescued as fire breaks out in 2-storey building TNN / May 29, 2023, 0814 IST Mumbai airport to observe Fire Service Week TNN / Apr 14, 2023, 2052 IST "Fire Service Week is observed all over India from 14 April to 20 April every year in the memory of and to pay homage to those brave fire fighters who lost their lives while discharging their duties during the dock explosion at Mumbai in the year 1944," said a Mumbai International Airport Ltd MIAL spokesperson. Cold storage collapse Man rescued after 19 hours in UP's Sikandrabad TNN / Apr 25, 2023, 0612 IST After 19 agonising hours of spending buried under steel shuttering and thousands of carrot sacks, 20-year-old Gaurav Singh was finally pulled out late on Sunday night by rescue teams tunnelling through the rubble at the collapsed five-storey cold storage in Bulandshahr's Sikandrabad. Driver rescued with his tractor from pit filled with rainwater TNN / Jun 07, 2023, 0825 IST Four stuck in lift at Connaught Place club rescued after hour-long operation TNN / May 19, 2023, 0456 IST Delhi Fire Service DFS rescued four people stuck in a lift at a club in Connaught Place after an hour-long operation on Thursday. Kitten rescued from 200ft borewell TNN / May 24, 2023, 0831 IST Family trapped in neck deep water in KR Circle underpass in Bengaluru due to heavy downpour rescued PTI / May 21, 2023, 1720 IST ​​The condition of a woman in the car is said to be critical and has been shifted to a nearby hospital. According to sources, a family of six from Hyderabad was travelling in a car amid heavy downpour and hailstorms on Sunday afternoon. Woman jumps into creek in Thane, rescued TNN / Apr 21, 2023, 2202 IST A 27-year-old woman suffered injuries after she allegedly jumped off the Vitawa Railway Bridge near Thane station into the adjoining creek, officials said on Friday evening. Disabled rescued from fire TNN / Feb 23, 2023, 0816 IST Animal activists, fire brigade help rescue animals from Appapada slum fire in Mumbai TNN / Mar 16, 2023, 1920 IST Several animal rights groups, along with the Mumbai fire brigade, have managed to rescue dogs, cats, piglets and even pigeons in the last three days since the fire broke out at the Appapada slum in Malad east. Minor fire at LIC building in Chennai TNN / Apr 03, 2023, 0739 IST A minor fire broke out on top of the LIC building on Anna Salai on Sunday evening in which the display board placed on the terrace went up in flames. The fire was put out in 30 minutes and there was no casualty. rescue from fire Videos More than dozen rescued from major apartment fire US Indiana man saves five people from house fire Odisha Leopard rescued from a well in Sambalpur Pune fire department rescues 10 Persian cats from flat full of smoke following fire AP - New Haven, Connecticut, has agreed to a $45 million settlement with Randy Cox, who was paralyzed while being transported handcuffed and without a seat belt in the back of a police van following his arrest last year, the city’s mayor and attorneys said agreement was reached Friday evening following a daylong conference with a federal magistrate judge, Mayor Justin Elicker said. It came two days after the city fired two police officers who authorities said treated Cox recklessly and without compassion.“The city’s mistakes have been well documented,” a statement by attorneys Ben Crump, Louis Rubano and Weber, who represented Cox, said. “But today is a moment to look to the future, so New Haven residents can have confidence in their city and their police department.”Cox, 36, was left paralyzed from the chest down June 19, 2022, when the police van he was riding in braked hard, sending him head-first into a metal partition while his hands were cuffed behind his back. Cox had been arrested on charges of threatening a woman with a gun, which were later dismissed.“I can’t move. I’m going to die like this. Please, please, please help me,” Cox said minutes after the crash, according to police at the police station, officers mocked Cox and accused him of being drunk and faking his injuries, according to surveillance and body-worn camera footage. Officers dragged Cox by his feet out of the van and placed him in a holding cell prior to his eventual transfer to a Some may find the content in the video The officers were fired for what authorities called their reckless actions and lack of compassion toward the victim. WFSB, NEW HAVEN POLICE DEPT, CNNFive officers, including those who were fired, face criminal charges in the case. All have pleaded not last year sued the officers and the city for $100 million. His attorneys called the settlement the largest ever in a police misconduct did not plan to make any public comments over the weekend, Rubano said.“He kind of relived what happened to him throughout the day yesterday, so it was a very emotional day,” the attorney said by phone. “He’s unwinding now.”The case drew outrage from civil rights advocates like the NAACP, along with comparisons to the Freddie Gray case in Baltimore. Cox is Black, while all five officers who were arrested are Black or Hispanic. Gray, who also was Black, died in 2015 after he suffered a spinal injury while handcuffed and shackled in a city police Haven police have since adopted reforms that include making sure all prisoners wear seat belts. The state Senate on June 5 gave final approval to legislation that would require seat belts for all prisoners being transported.“Randy entered a police transport vehicle being able to walk, and now he’s not able to walk,” Elicker said at a news conference Saturday. He said he had spoken with Cox’s mother earlier in the day.“What I shared with her is that while this settlement cannot bring Randy back to his original state when he entered that police transport vehicle, that my hope is that it provides Randy the future medical support and other support that he will need,” Elicker said. “Randy’s 36 years old, and we hope he has a long life ahead of him with the kind of support and care that he deserves.”Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

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