Father dies after saving children from fire

[Project Grudge]

Source: The Courier-Journal


A 27-year-old Jeffersonville father died this morning after dropping his two young children to a person waiting below a second-story window.

Tony Decker, Jeffersonville deputy fire chief, said firefighters pulled the man from the second story of a townhouse in the 1900 block of Barbara Court and administered CPR....

Dickerson was pronounced dead at 8:30 a.m. in the Emergency Room of Clark Memorial Hospital.

The two children dropped from the window were about 6 months and 5 or 6 years old, Decker said. They were suffering from smoke inhalation and transported to a hospital, but the injuries did not appear to be life threatening, he said.

Read more: http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20090213/NEWS02/90213019

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A tale of good in today's bad news world.

[FreakinDJ]

1. Because that is what "True Fathers do"

not enough credit given to Dads these days

[skeewee08]

3. AMEN!

[drgonzosghost]

5. I'm sure he didn't even think twice and right now he is by their bed sides....

I don't have the slightest doubt that I would have done the same thing. God Bless this man, and chalk more points on the celestial chalkboard for fatherhood in general.

[elocs]

2. With all the parents that harm or kill their children here is one who made the ultimate sacrifice

of love. These children will miss their father all of their lives, but they will know how much he loved them in sacrificing his own life to save theirs.

[skeewee08]

4. So true.

[Doremus]

6. Very true indeed.

:cry:

[jennied]

7. Bittersweet.

[ReliantJ]

8. Yeah

Feel terrible for the kids that have to live life without their father, but they get to live.
RIP

[DoctorMyEyes]

9. A tale of good in today's bad news world?

I'm sorry. A man is dead and it must have been a horrifying and painful death. It's great that it wasn't in vain and that his kids will survive - but I'd hardly characterize this as "good news". It's a tragedy.

[lumberjack_jeff]

12. I thought the same thing. Would it have been even better news if mom had died too? n/t

[Dreamer Tatum]

14. It's not good news. It's a story about a man who did good.

Is it that hard?

[Stinky The Clown]

10. Yesterday I was riding the DC Metro. A young man got on pushing a little girl in a stroller .....

He was probably 23 or 25 years old. He sat a few rows ahead of me, his back to me and the little girl, in the stroller, facing me. I was going to the end of the line and, it turns out, so were they.

After he sat down, I could see her angelic little face. She looked adoringly at her dad. They played "high five" and with each slap of their palms she beamed more and just had this marvelous "I love you Daddy" look on her face. Then she impishly started to pick her nose - as all kids do. Daddy slapped her hand away. Not hard, but as gently as if the little hand were a butterfly and he were just trying to brush it from her face.

She scowled and did it again. He slapped it away again. I heard him say "Don't do that. Its not nice."

This sort of activity continued until the train pulled into the Greenbelt station. All the while, for her, there was nothing in the world but her Daddy.

I got up as he was gathering his things and starting to reach for the stroller handle. I leaned over to him and said, "You're a lucky man, my friend. That beautiful little girl sure loves her Daddy."

He beamed. "I have two sons, too, but she's my special one."

We both got off the train and went our separate ways.

Your story put me in mind of this kid. Good dads exist and when we see them, its special.

[MarianJack]

11. Speaking as a Dad,...

...I would sacrifice my life for my wife and son in a heartbeat.

I love life and want to stay around another 30-35 years (I'll be 54 in June), but their lives mean everything to me as this man's children's did to him. I believe he'll be watching them from Heaven. I mourn the lossfor the children, but as another poster said, they will live.

PEACE!

[MrSlayer]

13. Odd that he didn't just jump out himself, after dropping the kids off.

Maybe the window was too small. Very sad but the way a father would want it I guess. I'd gladly give my life for my kids.