{"id":15528,"date":"2018-01-24T14:57:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T19:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/?p=15528"},"modified":"2018-01-24T14:57:27","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T19:57:27","slug":"georgia-firefighter-reunites-with-young-girl-thrown-from-burning-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/?p=15528","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Firefighter Reunites With Young Girl Thrown From Burning Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fireengineering.com\/articles\/pt\/2018\/01\/georgia-firefighter-reunites-with-young-girl-thrown-from-burning-building.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fireengineering.com<\/a>) \u2013\u00a0The 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.<\/p>\n<p>The Nelson family\u2019s story shocked the world last week after\u00a0harrowing helmet cam footage\u00a0of Stroup catching Destiny went viral.<\/p>\n<div id=\"inlineAdSideBySide\" class=\"ad-wrapper ad-wrapperSideBySide\">\u00a0Stroup 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\u2019s family again that made this incident so special to him.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fireengineering.com\/articles\/pt\/2018\/01\/georgia-firefighter-reunites-with-young-girl-thrown-from-burning-building.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH HERE\u203a\u203a<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(fireengineering.com) \u2013\u00a0The incredible story of a young Georgia girl thrown to safety from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":15529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15530,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15528\/revisions\/15530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}