pizza delivery man saves FIVE children from burning house

pizza delivery man saves FIVE children from burning house
A pizza delivery man who dashed into a burning building and pulled four children from certain death before jumping out a window with a fifth has been hailed as a hero.

Nicholas Bostic, 25, was driving through a neighbourhood in Lafayette, Louisiana around midnight on July 11 when he saw a house engulfed in a raging fire.
He pulled up outside intending to call 911 but realised he'd left his phone at home and dashed inside with no regard for his own safety.

Bostic said he couldn't see or hear anyone through the smoke and flames and was about to turn back when he saw the outline of a terrified teen at the top of the stairs, herding a bunch of children.

He had spotted Seionna Barrett, an 18-year-old who was babysitting her three younger siblings and one of their friends while her parents were out playing darts in a nearby bar.

Sprinting up the staircase, Bostic managed to shepherd Seionna and three kids - Shaylee, 13; Kaleia, 1; and Shaylee's friend Livian Knifley, 13 - through the brutal blaze to safety out on the street.

Eyes and lungs already burning from the heat, it was at that moment a coughing and shaking Seionna said her six-year-old sister Kaylani, nicknamed 'Baby K,' was still trapped in the inferno.

'I ran inside and looked under beds and closets, but I couldn't find her,' Bostic said. 'But when I got to the stairs, I heard some faint crying.'

'I thought, ''I don't want to die here,'' the rescuer said, but he knew he was the only chance Baby K had of escaping alive.

Holding his breath, Bostic scooped up the crying child and felt his way back up the staircase, unable to see anything through the thick black smoke other than a small rectangle of light coming from the rooms upstairs.

Once back upstairs, the heroic pizza delivery man broke open a window, wrapped the girl around his left side and leapt into the air, tumbling two stories and breaking the girl's fall with his own body.