PHOENIX — A photo taken of a firefighter saving an American flag from burning at a massive three-alarm fire is going viral.
KTLA.com reported firefighters were responding to the blaze at a Phoenix recycling plant when Fire Captain Nick Ells saw the American flag about to catch fire. Ells ran into the building to save the flag.
Fellow firefighter Adrienne Berman snapped a photo of as he walked away from the fire with the flag draped over his shoulder.
Berman posted the photo on Facebook with a caption that read: “Amongst everything going on last night in the recycling plant fire , my captain, Nick Ells, saw that the American flag was about to be caught in the fire and decided to go in and get it.”