Dramatic new body camera video shows Florida officers entering a burning home to rescue a woman who became trapped after another woman intentionally set the house on fire, officials said.<\/p>\n
The footage released by Port St. Lucie Police shows officers responding to the home on Sunday for a call of a domestic battery and residential fire.<\/p>\n
According to police, the suspect had set fire to the 62-year-old victim’s bedroom door while the victim was still inside.<\/p>\n
When the victim tried to put out the fire, the suspect attacked her, made threats and tried to push her toward the flames, so the victim retreated to a bathroom, locked the door and called police, officials said.<\/p>\n
The videos released by the department on Tuesday show officers with weapons drawn entering the smoke-filled home to search for the victim.<\/p>\n
“She’s in here!” an officer says as one officer kicks down the bedroom door that was engulfed in flames.<\/p>\n
The officers quickly find the victim who was trapped in the bathroom and help her outside.<\/p>\n
“She’s coming, we got her coming out,” an officers says as another officer is heard coughing. “We got the lady out of the house.”<\/p>\n
Three officers who responded received medical care, including two for smoke inhalation and one who suffered a leg injury from the suspect, police said.<\/p>\n
The victim survived.<\/p>\n
The suspect, identified as 26-year-old Michelle Picard, was arrested and charged with attempted murder, arson, and resisting arrest.<\/p>\n
“This incident serves as a reminder of the risks first responders face every day. While many see the flashing lights and uniforms, they don’t always see the sacrifices made behind them,” the department wrote in a Facebook post. “We are grateful the victim survived, proud of the courage displayed by our officers and firefighters, and wish our injured officers a speedy recovery. This is what service looks like. This is what courage looks like.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dramatic new body camera video shows Florida officers entering a burning home to rescue a woman who became…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1009,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-294548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-caught-on-camera","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}