Port St. Lucie Officers Rescue Woman From Burning Home in Bodycam Video

PORT ST. LUCIE, Florida — Port St. Lucie police body-camera video shows officers entering a smoke-filled home and helping rescue a 62-year-old woman who had retreated to a bathroom during an arson call, according to NBC 6 South Florida.

NBC 6 reported that the officers were responding Sunday to a call involving a domestic battery and a residential fire. According to police details cited by the station, the victim had locked herself in a bathroom after a bedroom door was set on fire and she was attacked while trying to put out the flames.

The released footage shows officers moving through smoke with weapons drawn while searching the home. NBC 6 reported that one officer can be heard saying, "She's in here!" as another officer kicks down a bedroom door that was engulfed in flames.

"We got the lady out of the house"

The officers found the woman trapped in the bathroom and helped her outside, according to the report. NBC 6 quoted the radio traffic from the scene: "She's coming, we got her coming out," and, "We got the lady out of the house."

Three responding officers received medical care, including two for smoke inhalation and one for a leg injury, police said, according to NBC 6. The victim survived.

"We are grateful the victim survived, proud of the courage displayed by our officers and firefighters, and wish our injured officers a speedy recovery. This is what service looks like. This is what courage looks like," the department wrote in a Facebook post quoted by NBC 6.

Active case, limited details

NBC 6 reported that a 26-year-old suspect was arrested and charged with attempted murder, arson and resisting arrest. ThinBlueNews is limiting the suspect and victim details here and is not drawing conclusions beyond the public reporting and police-attributed statements cited by the source.

For Support Law Enforcement readers, the rescue is another bodycam reminder of the split-second uncertainty officers can face: smoke, fire, an active threat report and a trapped victim all converged before firefighters and police could fully stabilize the scene.

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• NBC 6 South Florida: Video shows Florida officers rescue woman from burning house during arson call

Editorial note: ThinBlueNews used a real Port St. Lucie Police bodycam/source still published by NBC 6 South Florida. The featured image avoids close victim imagery and no AI-generated rescue scene was used.