They could see the flames as soon as the deputies arrived at the three-story Isle of East Millenia apartments in Orlando, Florida, in the early morning hours of April 23. They were just doing their job, but one deputy’s actions that day saw him hailed as a hero.
And it was caught on camera, for as the officers ran to the blaze and spotted a woman on the third-floor balcony with her 1-year-old daughter, deputy William Puzynski removed his ballistic vests, which had his bodycam fixed to it, and began scaling the building.