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Body cams show fiery rescue

Bill and Peggy Cruse of Ellisville, Missouri nearly lost their lives December 9th when toasting a Pop-Tart went horribly wrong.

Corporal Travis Detring of Ellisville Police was the first on the scene. His body camera captured the dramatic rescue.

Detring first encountered Peggy at the door. He encouraged her to get out of the house safely and then started combing through the burning home. He finally found Bill in a back bedroom.

Travis’s partner, Officer Chris Annis arrived on the scene just in the nick of time.

“I enter the house and I hear him calling from the back left bedroom that there’s somebody that needs to get out,” said Annis.

“He grabbed his legs and we were like, we gotta get out of here,” said Detring.

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