NORMAL, Ill. (WMBD) -- Normal Fire Lieutenant Matt Hill and Firefighter-Paramedic Nathan Riordan are being recognized for heroic acts that brought a lifeless child out of a burning mobile home on Sunday.

The fire department responded early Sunday, Nov. 2, to the call of a mobile home fully engulfed with people still trapped inside, according to Fire Inspector Matt Swaney. Upon arrival, it was confirmed victims were trapped in the rear bedroom, with one of them possibly a baby.

Entry to the home through any door was not possible, Swaney explained. But both men made the split-second decision to enter the mobile home through a rear wall without the protection of a hose line.

When the duo got inside the room, flames were already venting from one of the two small bedroom windows near the roo

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