This story simultaneously breaks the heart and warms the heart.
This Altadena nursing home had been evacuated during the Los Angeles wildfires earlier this month, but when police arrived to clear the area, they discovered a hard-of-hearing 100-year-old woman had been left behind. You can clearly see the fire approaching in the distance when the bodycam looks out the window.
Watch:
"I've been trying to find a way out."
Makes you wonder how long she'd been wandering around the place.
A harrowing video released by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Tuesday showed two deputies rescuing a 100-year-old woman as the Eaton Fire approached her senior living facility.
The body camera footage showed deputies Nicholas Martinez and Quinn Alkonis using flashlights while walking through the evacuated facility's darkened halls, shouting and going door to door searching for anyone left behind.
The way those police consoled the old woman is just ...
You love to see stories like this. Glad to know we have great men and women in the police force to make up for mistakes like this, which do happen in these facilities, especially in such dire circumstances.
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