Shane's free choice writing: THE FIRE HERO

                The Fire Hero

    Boom! In a flash, fire was shooting out of a burning hotel. Several people came out of the explosion alive. Firefighters flooded the streets, pouring as much water as they could on the blaze.
    A woman screamed "My baby, my baby!" She started to get louder and louder. Then suddenly, screams and cries started coming out of the building. They could hear the baby cries for help.
    A firefighter asked her, "where is your baby?"         She screamed, "he's on the top floor!" That's when the firefighter swung into action!
     He ran inside the building and the raging fire, as if nothing could get in his way. The fire was blazing all around him, but then he found a safe trail up the stairs.
    As soon as he got to the top floor, he pounded right through the door with his ax and broke the door. When he got inside to investigate, he found the baby inside the mother's room. The baby was still crying and screaming for help. The firefighter ran up to the baby,and right then a whole chunk of the roof caved in. He scooped up the baby just in time and started running with the baby as fast as he could out of the building.
    As he went down the stairs, he found a hole he could fit through and he jumped right through it. As soon as he reached the ground, he felt a big sharp pain in his ankle, but he was running through like nothing could stop him with the baby still in his grasp.
    As soon as he got out of the building, the mother started screaming and yelling and ran as fast as she could to the firefighter. The mother took her baby and thanked the firefighter. But the firefighter didn't have much time to talk. He had to be put on an ambulance and was rushed to the hospital.
    Weeks later, the fire has been out for a long time, and the firefighter was on crutches. He didn't feel like a hero, even though he was one. He thought he was just doing his job and any other firefighter would do the same thing. 
    One day, he was presented with a medal for saving the baby. The medal didn't make him feel like a hero either, but then he saw the mother of the baby! She walked up to him and kissed him on the cheek and she said, "thank you for saving my baby." From that    moment on, the firefighter knew that he was a hero.