This Fireman Saved A Little Girl….This Is What She Did 17 Years Later

Life has really a lot of things under its sleeves.

Who would ever think that a fireman who saved a nine-month baby girl from a fire will be invited the graduation of the angel he saved some years after the incident.

As the house filled with hot smoke, Mike Hughes says he had a hunch. He dashed into a room the first he tried and there in a crib was a 9-month-old girl overwhelmed by smoke inhalation.

The firefighter gathered the infant in his arms and rushed her to safety.

Another 20 seconds and it would have been a different outcome, he recalled to KOMO News.

That rescue happened 17 years ago. The girl, Dawnielle Davison, is now 18.

Hughes, who lives in Wenatchee, Washington, and is now retired, told TODAY that he connected with Davison about five years ago after rediscovering an old newspaper clip about his rescue of the girl.

I thought, I wonder if that baby I pulled out of that fire is still alive and kicking. So I just got on Facebook and looked her name up and presto, there she was, the 61-year-old said. I thought it would be fun to say hi.

Davison says she had no idea that she had come so close to death at such a young age until Hughes reached out to her.

For her graduation, Davison says she knew she wanted her hero to be there.

[Its] really emotional, Davison told KOMO News through tears. I dont know really how to describe it, theyre happy tears, to realize some things could have gone wrong.

Hughes said he was really moved that the teen thought to invite him for such an important occasion.

She sent me an invitation so I thought, By golly, Im going, he told ABC News. It meant an awful lot to me. I was really happy.

Mike cried when he heard Danielles speech at the ceremony: Mikes presence here is really important to me. I always cry from happiness when I think about how everything could have been so different. I wouldnt be here if it wasnt for you.

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