It was an emotional reunion on Thursday afternoon as a six-year-old boy met the Ottawa firefighters that helped to save lots of his life.
Cody McNeil was solely a toddler when a humidifier by his crib caught hearth in February 2017.
"I simply bear in mind telling him the fireplace was in his room and grabbing him earlier than operating exterior and sitting in our mini van, the place I known as 911," Tammy McNeil, Cody’s mom, stated.
A hearth alarm alerted the boy’s mother and father to the smoke and flames.
"She opened the door to his room and that’s the place she noticed the precise humidifier on hearth," Chris McNeil, Cody’s father, stated.
The McNeils obtained out of their Kanata house inside minutes and earlier than the firefighters arrived.
"A working smoke alarm is certainly why Cody is alive," stated Performing District Chief Steve Kinds of Ottawa Hearth Companies.
"We have been simply so grateful to be alive," Tammy McNeil stated. "Sure, he was injured, however he was alive and we have been alive, in order that’s what saved us going."
On the time of the incident, the toddler had third-degree burns and was given superior life-support earlier than being taken to hospital in crucial situation.
5 years later, the kid met the crew that helped to deal with him on the scene and save his life.The firefighters gave him a tour of the station hearth truck and let him try the gear.
"It seems like I’m a part of the staff," Cody stated.
His father including that the expertise was cathartic for everyone.
"He likes to know what occurred as a result of he doesn’t bear in mind it," Chris McNeil stated. "It provides us an opportunity to fill in a number of the blanks for him in addition to see the individuals concerned and thank them personally."
Whereas McNeil nonetheless lives with scars from the fireplace and after recovering from three surgical procedures and a number of pores and skin grafts, the incident hasn’t held him again as he stays energetic and completely happy all these years later.
"He’s a vibrant younger boy, he likes to sing and dance," stated his mom.
After a particular go to, Cody took house a coin and hat from the firefighters to at all times bear in mind the crew that modified his life.
Cody McNeil, 6, meets the firefighters that helped save his life throughout a hearth at a Kanata house in February 2017. (Natalie Van Rooy/CTV Information Ottawa)
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