RAVENNA, Ohio — “I can hear her in there!”
As flames ripped through a Ravenna house on Harvest Drive, police officers found themselves in a rescue operation to help a woman who was trapped in the basement.
“Ma’am! Come to the light!” one officer shouted after breaking a small basement window. “Where you at? Come to the sound of my voice!”
With the basement filling with smoke, the woman told a 911 dispatcher she was struggling to locate the window.
The officer’s intense calls continued: “Come on! Hurry! Hurry up!”
Moments later, she reached her arms out of the window and was quickly pulled to safety as officers quickly raced her away from the home.
“Dude, I cannot believe we got her out of there,” the officer said moments later while talking with another policeman. “It was full of smoke. I had to knock out the window.”
Now, a week after the fire, authorities have released body camera footage that shows the heroic moments in which the officers are able to pull the woman to safety.
Ravenna police say nobody as seriously injured, but EMS on scene was treated for smoke inhalation.
The Ravenna Police Department posted a big thank you message on Facebook for everybody who helped at the scene, which they said included: Ravenna officers, Ravenna Firefighters Local 1340, Ravenna Township Fire Department, Rootstown Fire Department, Mantua Shalersville Professional Fire Fighters-IAFF Local 4429 and Portage County FIU.
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Editor's note: Video in the player above was originally published in an unrelated story on May 19, 2021.