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When 17-year-old Dawnielle Davison was just nine months old, she nearly died of smoke inhalation in a house fire. But before it was too late, firefighter Mike Hughes found her in her crib and brought her to safety. All these years later, Hughes just watched the little girl he rescued earn her high school diploma. It’s a sweet, sweet reunion that will make you feel all fuzzy inside and remind you that firefighters are and always have been cooler than cops. [Note: This writer is the daughter of a former volunteer firefighter.]
Hughes, who is now retired, reconnected with Davison on Facebook seven years ago:
“I sent her a note that said, ‘I think i pulled you out of a fire when you were a baby,’” Hughes recalled. “And she gave me a test…she wrote back, ‘Oh yeah, what was my mom doing?’”
“I replied, ‘Well she was at work and your dad was there,’” Hughes said.
They kept in touch over the years, and, as she approached her big day, Davison invited Hughes to her high school graduation. It meant “an awful lot” to him, as he told the local ABC affiliate in Washington state, to be there for the third person he ever rescued from a fire.
No one else was hurt in the fire that day, and Davison, obviously, fully recovered after Hughes ran into the burning house to give her a future.