VIDEO: Philadelphia Fire Department Lt. JaNét Pearson was taken aback by the honor she received Wednesday afternoon inside St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children. She was honored for her work as a hero, but before she started her work of saving others, someone saved her. “By the time he went to get me, the fire was dropping into my crib, and it was a wooden crib that was already on fire,” Pearson said of the moment her father rescued her and her siblings from a fire. It’s a story she grew up hearing because she was only 18 months old at the time of a devastating fire that injured her and her father badly.
