By Tom Eschen
CNY Central
UTICA, N.Y. — Seven Utica firefighters and one Utica Police officer were honored on Wednesday night for rescuing a four-year-old girl from a burning building on February 22nd.
Jeff Baranowski, Brian Bova, Jessica Caulkins, Fred DeCarlo, Captain Scott Ingersoll, Marc Manno and Lt. Dominick Meyers were awarded certificates for their roles in saving Halima Haji, who lived at Adrean Terrace in east Utica. In this YouTube video, captured by witness Vasiliy Stadnick, firefighter Fred DeCarlo is seen carrying a limp and lifeless Haji out of the building.
“It happened so fast,” DeCarlo says. “When I watched [the video], I don’t remember half of it, everything crashes all in at once, you just do what you can do, what you’re trained to do.”
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