GRANBURY, Texas (KTVT) – Firefighters in Texas rushed to the scene of a massive apartment fire, only to find a 2-year-old boy trapped inside and his mother begging them to get him out of the blaze.

Volunteer firefighters from the Granbury Fire Department rushed to an apartment complex early Sunday morning to find heavy flames coming from the building — and mother Phylicia Keen desperately pleading to save her 2-year-old son, Liam, who was caught in the block. the second floor.

“Around 12:50, 1 o’clock this morning, I heard glass breaking. I walk down the hall and into the living room and realize it was actually my window that broke from the flames on my balcony,” Keen said.

The mother caught her 4-year-old son, but couldn’t reach the 2-year-old.

“When I came back to get the baby, the whole hallway from the living room was engulfed in black smoke,” Keen said.

In a few minutes, firefighters arrived on the scene. They grabbed a ladder and rushed to the side of the building where Liam was trapped. Lt. Jonathan Head of the North Hood County Volunteer Fire Department swung an ax to break a window and pull the 2-year-old to safety. The whole rescue was caught on camera.

When he was brought to safety, Liam was crying, something his mother was happy to hear.

“Actually, them telling me she was crying was probably the best moment of my life so far because at one point, just seconds before that, I thought my baby was dead,” Keen said.

Liam was airlifted to Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth with carbon monoxide poisoning. Now, he is back in his mother’s arms, where he belongs.

“Unfortunately, what goes through our heads as firefighters is it’s going to be the same result that we see 80 percent of the time,” Granbury Fire Capt. Bradley Snyder said. “I’ve been doing this for about 22 years and this is literally the first time I’ve seen it go the right way.”

The Keen family has lost so much, but they still have each other, thanks to the brave firefighters. Keen’s brother is actually a lieutenant in the Granbury Fire Department, but she says all the firefighters are like family now.

“They are wonderful – heroes, angels – they are not recognized enough. They hit the ground running and didn’t stop,” Keen said.

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