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Nick Bostic


From BlazeNews:

On 7/11 around 12:30 a.m. Nick Bostic was driving home and noticed that a house was on fire. He immediately pulled into the driveway and ran to the back of the home.

Bostic told WXIN, “I saw the fire on the balcony so I slammed on the brakes, pulled in the driveway, and ran into the house from the back. I was hollering ‘Is there anybody in there?’”

Bostic busted into the burning home. The 25-year-old Lafayette man helped a 2 year-old, and an 18-year-old sister escape the inferno. However, they told him that there was still a 6-year-old child trapped in the smoldering home.

“The smoke just came out of nowhere. It was pitch black, pitch black. The heat was excruciating,” Bostic explained. Emergency personnel said they couldn’t enter the blazing home because of the “intensity of the fire.”

“Nicholas wrapped his shirt around his mouth and nose and plunged into the blackness,” the city of Lafayette said in a statement. “He described it as so black that he couldn’t see anything in front of him, and the heat from the fire made it seem as if he was walking into an oven.”

He was able to locate the 6-year-old girl, but the only exit available was through a window on the second floor.

“I grabbed her and held her snug and I ran up those stairs like a running back for the Colts. I jumped out that window,” Bostic said. “I was just pushing time on its edge. I was pushing its limit, literally pushed its limit to the last millisecond. I just got lucky.”

Bostic broke the window by punching the glass with his bare hands. Bostic emerged from the daunting scene carrying the child away from the blaze. 

Police noted that the 6-year-old was “miraculously mostly uninjured.”

Bostic was seriously injured in the frantic rescue, suffering from severe smoke inhalation, burns, and cuts on his arms and legs. Bostic was flown to a hospital in Indianapolis. Bostic has since been released after several days of treatment.

Bostic was recognized for his heroic actions by the Lafayette Police Department, the Lafayette Fire Department, and Lafayette Mayor Tony Roswarski.

“Nicholas Bostic’s heroic actions saved lives. His selflessness during this incident is inspiring, and he has impressed many with his courage, tenacity, and steadfast calmness in the face of such perilous danger,” the city of Lafayette said in a statement.

Nicholas Bostic is a true hero in so many ways – stopping and pulling into the driveway; entering the back of the burning house; continuing on through dense black smoke to find the six year-old; breaking a window to provide an egress for himself and the six year-old; jumping out of the broken second story window clutching the six year-old.

Whereas the emergency personnel could not enter the house because of “the intensity of the flames,” Bostic courageously entered and rescued three children … this is, indeed, a true hero!

7/17/22

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