{"id":16652,"date":"2018-12-14T14:04:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T19:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/?p=16652"},"modified":"2018-12-14T14:04:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T19:04:52","slug":"cobb-co-firefighter-who-saved-boy-from-high-falls-honored-at-georgia-public-safety-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/?p=16652","title":{"rendered":"Cobb Co. firefighter who saved boy from High Falls honored at Georgia Public Safety awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/iframe><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.13wmaz.com\/article\/news\/local\/cobb-co-firefighter-who-saved-boy-from-high-falls-honored-at-georgia-public-safety-awards\/93-621823466\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">13WMAZ<\/a>) \u2013\u00a012 awards were given Thursday for saving lives, and 2 for outstanding job performance. Law enforcement from all across Georgia joined forces to recognize their brave colleagues. Governor Nathan Deal addressed the public safety community that works to protect Georgia every day.<\/p>\n\u201cThey\u2019re all the best examples we have of Georgians who are working to make their space in this state the best they can be,\u201d says Governor Deal.<\/p>\nAmong the 12 courageous officers, 1 Cobb County firefighter, Rusty Brown, was honored for saving a young boy\u2019s life.<\/p>\nTwo brothers, James and Christian Burdette,\u00a0were playing at High Falls State Park in October 2017 when they both fell down the waterfall onto rocks.\u00a0Brown responded to the call. Christian died after the fall, but James called 911, and Brown was lowered by helicopter on a 100-foot rope.<\/p>\nBrown says his number one priority that day was to get James to safety, \u201cMake it happen \u2014 that was really about it. We trained, and it was natural \u2014 you know, muscle memory of doing what we needed to do, and just getting us out of there.\u201d<\/p>\nAfter receiving his award and name on the monument, Brown says it was surreal, \u201cIt\u2019s pretty awesome. Overwhelming. I still don\u2019t feel like I deserve something to this level. Like I said, it is my job. I volunteered to be on the aviation team.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 (13WMAZ) \u2013\u00a012 awards were given Thursday for saving lives, and 2 for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16652","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=16652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16653,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16652\/revisions\/16653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiaarsoncontrol.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}