When smoke fills a room and flames begin to spread, every second can mean the difference between life and death. In Culpeper, Virginia, four police officers faced that reality on October 3, crawling through a smoke-choked house to find a resident who had failed to escape the fire. Their search led them into a burning bedroom, where an unconscious man lay waiting to be rescued, states an online report by Fox News. The officers brought him out alive, but the rescue came at a cost, with three of them requiring hospital treatment. Scroll down to read the details of the accident.
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