Body camera captures officer rescue child from burning home

WXIA-TV | Atlanta

Show Caption Hide Caption Body camera shows officer saving boy from burning house Footage from a body camera captured a Georgia police sergeant's heroic rescue of a 3-year-old from a house fire.

GRIFFIN, Ga. — Footage from a body camera captures a police sergeant's rescue of a 3-year-old from a house fire.

Sgt. Joe Hudson of the Griffin Police Department arrived at the scene of the blaze before the fire department and spotted a grandmother leaving a burning home. He learned that her grandson was still in his room. That's when the 14-year veteran ran into a fire for the first time.

"I was looking everywhere and couldn't find him," Hudson said. "Smoke was starting to get to me, so I grabbed some clothes off her bed and put 'em to my face."

Still, he persisted.

"Opened that door and he was laying there on the bed, and I immediately grabbed him and ran out," Hudson said.

Despite the attention he's receiving from the rescue, Hudson said his actions were all part of the job.

"I did what I get paid to do," he said. "I'm supposed to do what others might not, so that's what I did. I earned my paycheck."

Waffle House donated the money for the Griffin Police Department's 60 body cameras after Officer Kevin Jordan was shot and killed at one of their restaurants. The department began using the cameras on Jan. 1.