By Andrea Crick
Pasadena Star News, California
ALTADENA, Calif. — He ran towards her home when firefighters told a woman trapped in Officer Adrian Woolford as the Eton fire spread rapidly.
Two of his fellow Pasadena Police Station officers, Krishstian Banueros and Jonathan Bombardier, saw Woolford and quickly chased him in the smoke-suffocating darkness.
“If he was running, I know he would have been running in the direction of someone who needed help,” Banueros said. “None of us asked us what our job was. Our job was to save lives. That's what we're trying to do, and that's what we think all day long. It was the only thing that had been there.”
In the house they spotted two women who did not run away. Banuelos carried one of the women out of the house, and Woolford gathered wheelchairs and other essentials.
Bombardier then realized that no other women had left with them. He went back inside to drive her out.
Bodyworn camera footage and photos released on Thursday, February 6 by the Pasadena Police Station found that Woolford, Banueros, Bombardier and other officers were forced to smash embers overhead, causing flames to turn to homes and businesses. They jumped in and showed efforts to evacuate residents.
The officers slammed the door – and smashed it with at least one case – they found residents, woke them up and allowed them to reach safety, footage showed.
At two Palms Care Centers, a nursing home in the 2600 block of East Washington Boulevard in Altadena, Pasadena police officers rush to wake up in the dark, awakening a fragile patient, placing masks on their faces, and flames turn to the facility. It moved quickly and safely before destroying it.
“The building is on fire, man. We have to go,” the officer told one patient before bringing him into a wheelchair.
Officers pushed several patients outside while still in hospital beds. Police then directed the Pasadena Transit Bus to move patients out of the evacuation zone.
Pasadena police said they deployed 92 police officers to evacuate residents before additional first responders arrived in the first hour of the tragic wildfires with the help of disastrous winds. Officials said.
No other executives like Banuelos or Bombardier were working, but they called about the fire and took the time to help around 3am.
Eaton Fire has destroyed thousands of homes and other structures and killed at least 17 people, but without his officers' efforts in the first few hours, Pasadena Police Chief Jean Harris has also said I think hundreds of people have died.
“It was Hercules' efforts made with finger snaps,” Harris said.
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