VIDEO: Two Attleboro police officers were recognized by the city on Tuesday after they rescued the victims from a burning home over the weekend.
Officers Adena Joseph and Shawn Reardon were first on the scene after a fire broke out at a duplex off Mendon Road on Sunday morning. Without hesitation, both rushed to help the two people stuck inside.
Joseph said in moments like these, you have to “stay calm but also act quickly and efficiently.” Reardon said he remembered seeing an unconscious woman on the floor and telling Joseph they had to go up to rescue her.
“We went up, crawled underneath the black smoke above us, and we were able to make contact with her and pull her down,” Reardon said, detailing his experience to 12 News.
The woman was seriously burned and taken to Rhode Island Hospital with critical injuries.