Simply incredible video captures the heroics of retired Marine Phillip Blanks.
As a fire raged through a Phoenix apartment building on July 3, Blanks said his instincts kicked in as a mother dropped her toddler from the balcony to save his life.
"Ultimately, this is my job," Blanks, a former Marine who now works as a body guard, told MLive.com. "It was all fast, it was a blur. It was tunnel vision as I was running. I didn’t see anything but the baby."
Heart-wrenching video of the save shows Blanks, 28, rush in and dive to grab the child just before he nearly hit the gravel below the balcony. The 3-year-old and an 8-year-old girl survived the flames but were hospitalized with injuries. The children's mother died in the fire.”
Aside from being a retire Marine, Blanks currently works as a bodyguard. He tells Mlive.com that “ultimately, this is my job.It was all fast, it was a blur. It was tunnel vision as I was running. I didn’t see anything but the baby.”
Blanks said he was at a friend’s apartment when he heard people yelling outside and he jumped into action.
According to reports, the boy & his 8-year-old sister were taken to the hospital with injuries.
Blanks says the kids mother who sacrificed her own life for her kids was the “real hero of the story”.