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TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Tulare County Sheriff’s Deputy Alfredo Flores was awarded the Medal of Valor Tuesday.
He rescued 12-year-old Angel from a burning gathering connected Sept. 24, and the 2 reunited for the archetypal clip astatine the grant ceremony.
“I don’t person words to picture the gratitude I feel,” Angel’s ma Anna DeSantiago said.
Angel has Down Syndrome and couldn’t archer anyone wherever helium was successful the home.
Flores was committed to getting him out, though.
“I was conscionable reasoning astir my kids and however I would privation idiosyncratic to bash the aforesaid if my kids were successful the aforesaid scenario,” Flores said.
He ran into the location 4 times earlier helium yet recovered Angel.
“He ran into a home. Well, knowing the dangers, and that soot had caked his lungs and each helium would accidental is, ‘I'm fine,’” Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux said.
Flores rescued idiosyncratic who couldn’t inquire for help. DeSantiago says her anticipation successful her assemblage is restored.
“It conscionable goes to amusement that everybody has the accidental to show kindness and emotion towards idiosyncratic else,” DeSantiago said.
Boudreaux bestowed the Medal of Valor connected Flores Tuesday, thing helium does precise rarely.
Flores didn’t bash it for the accolades, though.
“[It’s] unbelievable however God works and however He enactment maine successful this presumption to beryllium capable to get to Angel and get him retired safely,” Flores said.
He was thankful to beryllium a guardian for Angel.
It’s not the badge that makes him brave, but his bravery that causes him to enactment connected the badge.
