Raises Over $500K for Pizza Delivery Man Who Saved 5 Homes From Burning Down – National | Globalnews.ca

a GoFundMe campaign for Indiana pizza delivery man who was injured while saving Two children and three teenagers from burning house Raised over half a million dollars last week.

After rescuing five youths, 25-year-old Nicolas Bostik of Lafayette, Ind., is hailed as a hero. Bostic noticed that a house caught fire while driving at night and risked his life – even jumping out a window with a six-year-old in his arms – to save the occupants. .

Bostic had to be taken to nearby Indianapolis for severe smoke inhalation and treatment for a major wound on his right arm. He also had cuts, burns and blisters and was treated in the hospital for several days.

Bostic’s cousin, Richard Stair, created gofundme page To raise money for the hospital bills of Hero Pizza Delivery Man with an initial target of US$100,000.

By the time of publication, Page had raised at least $516,000 in charity.

“This baby is the real deal,” Stair wrote on the page. “Unfortunately, she has suffered some serious injuries and will need help while she recovers.”

An update posted by Steyr on the campaign’s page on July 16 reads that Bostic is feeling better and in good spirits after the exam.

“The amount of support and donations is beyond anything we could have ever expected,” Stair wrote.

one in Press Release from Lafayette Police DepartmentOfficials told how Bostic immediately swung into action when he saw the burning house.

Bostik had no phone and knew that time was of the essence if someone stuck in hell. He went to the back door and without any answer called the people living there.

They “considered the possibility that all had already been evacuated,” the police statement read. “Taking no chance that someone might still be inside, he decided to go inside.”

Above, Bostic found a one-year-old boy and three teens, aged 13 to 18, who were agitated by his shouts.

“For a minute I didn’t understand it, but my sister ran upstairs with the baby in her hands and screamed that we get up because there’s a fire,” 13-year-old Shelly Barrett told Purdue Exponent, “And for a minute I froze and I lay there because I was confused. That’s when we went downstairs and Nick was helping us downstairs.”

Bostic helped the four youths escape but once they were outside they found a six-year-old still trapped inside.

“Without hesitation, he ran back to the burning house,” said the police.

According to police, Bostic described the ground floor of the house as a “black lagoon” of smoke, and crawled across the floor, feeling with his hands to move around the house.

He told police that he had “internal dialogue” with himself about whether it was possible to take out the last child, but was determined to leave, although the house felt like “walking in an oven”.

Bostik heard the cries of a child in the blackness and guided him with his voice. Once he had it, he was not able to locate the back door in the smoke-filled room.

He ran back up the stairs, where the smoke was not as thick, and “punched a window open with his bare hand,” the police wrote.

Bostic jumped out of a second-floor window carrying the six-year-old, and landed on his side to prevent their fall.

“The 6-year-old was miraculously mostly uninfected,” the press release said.

The parents of four of the five rescued youths – one of the teenagers was there to sleep – were out for a night when the fire broke out and returned home to find their home engulfed in flames and surrounded by emergency vehicles. Found it happened

David and Tierra Barrett expressed their gratitude to Bostic in an interview with The Exponent.

David Barrett said, “I literally told him that he was a part of our family now.” “And he was all on board with it. Once we’ve settled down somewhere, we’re going to invite him and his girlfriend over for dinner.”