{"id":33908,"date":"2026-09-06T21:48:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T21:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=33908"},"modified":"2026-09-06T21:48:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T21:48:34","slug":"uncle-suffers-third-degree-burns-saving-8-year-old-girl-from-burning-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=33908","title":{"rendered":"Uncle Suffers Third-Degree Burns Saving 8-Year-Old Girl From Burning Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"rll-youtube-player\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mIpu5D3qGAc\" data-id=\"mIpu5D3qGAc\" data-query=\"feature=oembed\" data-alt=\"Uncle who saved niece from house fire says he would \u2018do it again\u2019\">\n<div data-id=\"mIpu5D3qGAc\" data-query=\"feature=oembed\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mIpu5D3qGAc\">\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">A 20-year-old uncle ran into a burning house without thinking twice\u2014because his 8-year-old niece was trapped inside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Derrick Byrd had already caught two of his nephews after they jumped from a second-floor window.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">But little Mercedes was too afraid to jump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">So Derrick went back into the flames.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">He found her, wrapped his shirt around her face to protect her from the smoke, and carried her outside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">He suffered second- and third-degree burns on his face, back, and arms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">But when people called him a hero, Derrick simply said:<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>\u201cI wasn\u2019t going to let them die.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">And his next words said everything about the kind of uncle he is:<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI\u2019d run back in there and do it again\u2014even if I got burnt worse or died.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mIpu5D3qGAc?autoplay=1&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 20-year-old uncle ran into a burning house without thinking twice\u2014because his 8-year-old niece was trapped inside. Derrick Byrd had already caught two of his nephews after they jumped from a second-floor window. But little Mercedes was too afraid to jump. So Derrick went back into the flames. He found her, wrapped his shirt around&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=33908\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Uncle Suffers Third-Degree Burns Saving 8-Year-Old Girl From Burning Home&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33908"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33911,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33908\/revisions\/33911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}