presented<\/a> a formal resolution to the deputies and their constable, commending them for moving toward the danger while other agencies were still working to evaluate the scene.<\/p>\n\u201cRun to the scene and risk their lives to see how they could save, and they walk into the fire while Dallas Fire-Rescue and everyone else, Atmos, and all the different agencies were trying to find out. These two individuals ran into it to see how they could help,\u201d Garcia said, per Fox 4 KDFW.<\/p>\n
DeLuna and Banda were in separate locations that Thursday afternoon when the first explosion occurred. Both decided independently to head toward the blast, arriving before other emergency responders.<\/p>\n
Body camera footage showed DeLuna going door-to-door at the complex next to the burning building, searching for residents and animals. He guided at least five dogs, including a large husky, to safety.<\/p>\n
Banda worked to open a path for incoming emergency vehicles. A Waymo autonomous vehicle had stopped in the street, blocking a large fire engine from continuing down the block. Banda reached a Waymo dispatcher, took control of the vehicle, got inside, and moved it out of the way.<\/p>\n
Deputies and Constable React<\/p>\n
Precinct 5 Constable Michael Orozco said he was proud of his deputies and believed any member of his office would have responded the same way.<\/p>\n
\u201cOh absolutely, 100% proud,\u201d Orozco said, per Fox 4. \u201cThese deputies, like I\u2019ve said before, if it would have been another set of deputies from our office, they would have acted in the same brave and professional moment at that time.\u201d<\/p>\n
DeLuna described the recognition as humbling and said the work was part of the job.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s humbling, and it\u2019s the first time in my career that I\u2019ve ever been recognized for something,\u201d DeLuna said. \u201cAnd know I didn\u2019t sign up for it, and I don\u2019t believe Deputy Banda signed up for it, but we knew what we were getting ourselves into. We don\u2019t know what we\u2019re going to come upon, we don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen, and we just have to be ready for anything every single day.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt makes you feel great to understand that they\u2019re giving us recognition for something, you know, something so small at the end of the day. It\u2019s big for other people, but for us, it\u2019s everyday,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Front, L to R: Deputy Constables Vincent DeLuna and Jonathan Banda, with Deputy Michael Orozco, posing with county…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,121237,121238,104,103,121235,121236,51916],"class_list":["post-339925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county-commissioners-court","tag-dallas-county-deputies","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-jonathan-banda","tag-michael-orozco","tag-vincent-deluna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}