LAFAYETTE, Ind. - An Indiana man was seriously injured after leaping into action to save five sleeping people — mostly children — from a burning home.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."Bostic 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.When he ran upstairs, he found four people — the youngest a 1-year-old and the oldest an 18-year-old — asleep.
Once he got them out safely, they told him a 6-year-old girl was still inside.Without hesitation, Bostic ran back into the house and up the stairs where the other children were, but the child wasn’t there.