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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Barrett's two story home was on fire.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Hey, guys, six year old girl and a twenty three
year old male. That's lerisic in the house somewhere.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
What are you not sick?
Speaker 4 (00:10):
Your old email and a twenty two year old male
possibly inside. This is Miracles in the News.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Welcome back to Miracles in the News. Let me start
out by saying that we've seen a lot of miracle stories,
and we've definitely seen enough to know that not all
heroes wear capes.
Speaker 5 (00:30):
Right.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
That reminds me.
Speaker 6 (00:32):
Of the Dwight Shrew episode on the Office when he's like,
don't call me a hero. The real heroes are the
guys who go to work every day to their normal jobs,
and then they take off their glasses and they put
on their capes and they fly around saving people.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Oh my gosh, that's so funny. Yeah, Well, as we know,
that's definitely not the real heroes. No, we've met a
lot of really heroic people. Yeah, and here on this
story actually wore a pizza delivery uniform, And as you know,
pizza delivery drivers are heroes just by the fact that
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they bring.
Speaker 6 (01:11):
Yeah, my kids definitely think of pizza delivery guys as
heroes for sure.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Yeah, when they bring you that insulated box and they
like pull out the pizza and that smell hits you
and it's like, oh my gosh, Okay, sorry, I digress.
That's we're way on track. But back to our story.
Nick Bostik was a pizza delivery driver. He was a
twenty four year old. He lived in Lafaya, Indiana, And
in some ways he was a really unlikely hero because
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he was going through some really hard times, like financially,
and he had just been sober for just a couple
of months. He'd just gotten off a meth actually, and
technically he wasn't wearing his pizza delivery uniform this night
because he'd gotten off of work and was at home
with his girlfriend. And as the night progressed, he and
his girlfriend got into an argument over something silly. But
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Nick was frustrat and decided to go out for a
drive and you know, just to clear his head. And
he decided to leave his.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Cell phone at home, so like, no destination, like yes, driving.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah, just driving around randomly. And meanwhile, David and Tiara
Barrett were out for a date night and they had
left their kids home with their eighteen year old daughter
seeing and to watch them, and Nick happened to drive
down the Barrett Street past their house, and he caught
sight of something out of his car window. The Barrett's
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two story home was on fire.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
Oh man, It's like, why does it always happen when
the parents are at home?
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Right again?
Speaker 6 (02:36):
Is one of my biggest fears, something like this happening
when I'm at home, and it, yeah, it always happens,
I know.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
And obviously the parents had no idea that their kids
were in a burning home by themselves. And when Nick
saw this, he didn't know what to do, like he
had unfortunately, as we said, left his cell phone at home,
so he couldn't call nine one one, of course, So
he saw a car coming down the road. He ran
to the car, tried to flag down the driver, and
the driver just kept going, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Well, obviously they didn't see the fire. They would have stopped, but.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yeah, that's what I assume, but I don't know, like
for some reason, the driver didn't stop, so he just
was like stuck there by himself. And he said at
that point he was scared to run into the house,
but he thought about what his father would do in
that situation, and he thought my dad would run into
this house, and so that's what he did. He ran
straight towards the fire. It's a day that would change
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Nicholas's life.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
The twenty five year old was driving home when he
saw the flats quickly running in to help.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
I went in through the back door and the second
step up the staircase. That is when I seen the
faces coming out and they rent past me and I
followed behind and at the back porch, I was asking
on thursdaybody left in the house?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Wow?
Speaker 6 (03:50):
I was like expecting it to be just like a
little bit of smoke. If you've seen the video, it's
like a massive fire.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Oh yeah, yeah, the house was a stumble flames.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Yeah, Okay, So he said, there's people coming out, like
three people are coming out.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Well actually four because it was three of the Barrett's
daughters and one of their friends that was spending the night.
So Nick helped guide these girls out of the house.
And then standing there on the back porch, he asked
if there was anyone else left in the house, and
he got a terrifying answer. The kids told him that
six year old Kaylani was still inside. So yeah, without hesitation,
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Nick ran back into the house and began searching desperately
for this little girl.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Part of the way up the steps, he could actually
feel the heat coming up the steps as he was
at the top of the steps on the second floor.
So he went ahead and pulled his shirt up over
his face to protect him from the smoke, closed his eyes,
and he went down and he basically followed the voice
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of the six year old that he was able to
find on the floor. He was afraid of getting lost
and being in the smoke, so he remembered that there
was a window on the second floor bedroom that he
had been in.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
Okay, so he has the girl now, yeah, and he's
in a house he's never been in before, doesn't know
the layout.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Has to try to find an escape. Terrifying. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
So the choice he faced was he could either go
back and get lost in the smoke possibly, or he
could try to get out this second story window with
a six year old in his arms. So he and
the little girl were getting burned already from all the
sparks coming off of the fire, and he had to
make this decision so quickly. So let's just pause for
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one moment, and I want to ask you, what would
you do?
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Hmmm, I don't know. Are there fire trucks there yet?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
No, Well, they're on their way, they're almost there, they're
just arriving.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
I would probably just try to open the window and
try to climb onto the roof and see if they
could cumbring a ladder or something.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yeah, he didn't have time to figure out how to
open the window, and there was nothing to climb out onto,
so he just punched through the window and jumped with
Kailani in his arms.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
At that point, the only way out was through the window.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
We looked at the window and I went shoulders first
through it. I landed on my right side with her
on my left side.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Oh my gosh, I'm like picturing this in slow motion,
like one of those action movies where they're jumping away
from an explosion and it's like just in the nick
of time.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
It probably felt that way, because, yeah, what he did
was insane. So the fireman arrived on scene just as
Nick jumped out. So there's actually bodycam footage like right
when Nick lands on the ground with this little girl.
And I think they said he was a twenty three
year old man, but Nick was actually twenty five. But anyway,
he flew out of the window he used to bodied
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cushion little Kaylanie's fall, and you can hear her crying.
I'm sure it was a jolt to her poor little body.
And you can hear Nick pleading with a fireman for oxygen,
like this is pretty heart stopping stuff.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
Are He's ideostic.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
So much?
Speaker 5 (07:22):
So much me.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
The house.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
You gotta get aways in the house, Okay, okay.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
You can hear how much he is struggling to breathe.
I know all the smoke in his line.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Now and look at seriously, I have goosebumps right now,
like hearing that little girl crying and just oh, think
about how scary that must have been for her, But
also like what a blessing that that little girl was saved.
And here's the part that really gets me. Nick has
just leapt out of a two story house holding onto
this little girl. He's been burned. He's having a hard
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time breathing. You can hear him like begging for oxygen.
He has a bad cut on his arm, and obviously
he's had a really hard fall and is in a
lot of pain. And I want you to hear what
he says next.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Okay, you did good dude.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Yeah, oh don't Yeah, it's amazing. And in case you
didn't get that, he said, is the baby okay? Please
tell me that baby's okay. He probably had no idea
how old she was. He just knew that he had
saved this little child.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
And yeah, clearly he cares way more about her than himself.
I mean, he just fell out of a two story building.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Yeah, and his first concern is this little girl.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yeah, yeah, he had. He didn't know her name, he
didn't know anything about the Barrett family, and yet he
was willing to sacrifice everything to save those kids.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
My goodness, they're such amazing people in this.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, so true. So what do you think, Emily,
Is this a miracle?
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Well, of course, this is definitely a miracle.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
I mean, if he'd gone down a different road, if
he hadn't been paying attention, hadn't seen the fire, that
little girl would not be alive.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Such a miracle.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Yeah, I agree. And the fact that Nick was someone
who is so courageous and willing to run into a
burning house like not everyone would do that. I mean
the other person that drove by, I don't know if
they didn't see the house or what. But obviously they
didn't stop. Yeah, and Nick just went straight into that
house and saved these kids. And Nick is also almost
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blind in one of his eyes, and yet he saw
the fire and was able to go help these kids.
So I think that's also part of the miracle.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
Yeah, we say it almost every time. But right person,
right place, right time. Yep, no coincidences exactly.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
So another question for you, Emily, do you think you
would have run into that burning house?
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Well?
Speaker 4 (10:02):
I hope I would.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
I mean, I don't know if anybody really can know
for sure what you would do in a situation like this.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
I hope I would, but I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
I know I would love to think that I would too,
but honestly, I don't know. I probably would have run
to a neighbor's house to call nine of one or something.
I don't know what I would have done, but I
don't I don't know if I would have run into
a house full of flames, and I don't know if
I would have been there in time, you know what
I mean. But Nick didn't even hesitate.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
God was definitely looking out for little Kaylanni.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
He was, and I really feel like he was looking
out for Nick too, because so much good has come
out of this for Nick, like he says, it has
helped him to quit using hard drugs and he and
his girlfriend have actually gotten married now they now have
a son, and he's also been awarded the Carnegie Medal.
And I loved what he said about how this has
changed him.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
This made me a better man. It's stopped me a role,
as Uncle Ben would says Spider Man. Great power comes
great responsibility, and so as being looked up to by
so many people, even ones that I'm not even aware of.
I have a role to play in society. I can't
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be doing silly stuff like I used to.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
Leave it to Spider Man to give the very best wisdom. No,
I love that, But seriously, I love what he said
about just like taking on this new responsibility of being
a better person.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
I love that he's seeing himself as a good man
who is worth investing in himself, you know for sure.
And there's another hero that we still need to acknowledge
in this story, because the Barrett's oldest daughter, Siena, was
also really brave and calm under pressure, and she helped
lead those other children out as well, And I want
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you to hear what her dad said about her.
Speaker 7 (11:58):
Officer toda me about Nick and what he had done.
And I started crying more. One of the most awful
feelings to have that I wasn't there. Kaylannie said, Daddy,
I was looking for you. Sianna Barrett, the eldest daughter,
led most of her younger siblings and their family friend
to safety. She is a hero to me, and she's
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always been.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I don't think of myself as a hero at all.
That's just something you would just do. The cause of
the fire is currently under investigation. The family lost almost everything.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
I can't imagine having to go through something like this
at such a young age.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Oh, I know.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
And I just keep thinking like Nick spared this family
from having to go through a lifetime of sadness and
guilt and grief. Yeah, I mean it could have ended
very differently.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Can you imagine if they'd all gotten out but little Kaylanie,
what that would have done to that So tragic. Yeah,
I'm so glad they don't have to go through that.
And there was one life little miracles. When they walk
through the burn remains of the house, the only thing
left on the Barrett's wall was a little sign that said.
Speaker 7 (13:08):
Love on our wall in the living room. It was
completely burnt down. The only thing that was left with
love And that's all I feel from everyone.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
But the family says they did pick up a new
family member.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
God uses the most unlikely characters. He's sent an angel.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Isn't that so sweet?
Speaker 4 (13:27):
I love it. I love that they said that they
consider him part of their family. Now I died too.
I think trauma really does bond you to people.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Yeah, the Barretts truly think of Nick as their angel,
and they've become really close friends. And Nick is working
on building a law care business. I think he's working
maybe at a tire company now as well. And Nick,
if you're listening to this, you have inspired us more
than you know, so keep going, man.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
I mean, there's so much negativity in the news, but yeah,
I think the reality is there's just so much goodness
in the world, and then stories like this just to
remind you that people in general are very good.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Yeah, definitely, so many miracles. And if you've enjoyed this story,
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Speaker 1 (14:40):
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