(fireengineering.com) – The incredible story of a young Georgia girl thrown to safety from the third floor of a burning building reached an emotional conclusion on Good Morning America on Monday. Five-year-old Destiny Nelson officially met Captain Scott Stroup of the Dekalb County Fire Rescue Department, the firefighter who caught her after her father saved her life by throwing her from their blazing Decatur apartment.
The Nelson family’s story shocked the world last week after harrowing helmet cam footage of Stroup catching Destiny went viral.
Stroup was quick to acknowledge that firefighters do incredible things every day although the public rarely sees it. But for Stroup, a 26-year fire department veteran, it was meeting with the girl’s family again that made this incident so special to him.
