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Donations top $300K for Nicholas Bostic — man who saved 5 kids from house fire

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LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A GoFundMe account for an injured pizza deliveryman who saved five trapped children from a house fire has raised more than $300,000 as of Tuesday.

Police in Lafayette, Indiana, said 25-year-old Nicholas Bostic was driving around 12:30 a.m. on July 11 when he saw the home up in flames.

He threw his car into reverse and pulled into the driveway. He told police he wasn’t able to call 911 and he "didn’t want to waste time trying to find someone who could."Some media outlets have reported Bostic worked as a pizza delivery man, which was why he was in the neighborhood.RELATED: Mississippi teen hailed a hero after saving 3 teen girls, police officer from drowningBostic tried knocking on the door, but no one answered his calls.

He was able to get in through the back door and began yelling for people inside."I mean, I was high-tailing it, 110%. It started to get hard to see, because the smoke was getting bad," Bostic told journalist Dave Bangert. "I don’t know how to explain it, but it was like I accepted I was going to probably die, right there, that night.

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