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Well, tonight, we are bringing you our latest edition of Body Cam Heroes, an exclusive Fox News at night segment where we showcase stories about heroic police officers across the country. Law enforcement expert Aaron Cohen joins us live on the heroic rescue by an Atlantic city police officer of a teenage girl and her pets.

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Aaron? Yeah. Good evening, Trace. This one all started when an officer. RiLey Flint, Atlantic police, Atlantic City Police Department, heard cries for help while patrolling a neighborhood in Atlantic City. You'll see him jump in action right away. Not playing around. Makes forced entry into that resident structure. Ton of adrenaline dumping, as we know, with these type of callouts pumping through his blood. Makes his way through that caustic smoke. Very, very tough to breathe. This isn't your average campfire. These are very toxic chemicals. When ingested. Makes his way upstairs while the heat and smoke are continuing to rise. Most dangerous part of this call out for sure. Sound becomes the tactical tool as he uses it to hone in on the female teenager to find that girl. Locates her in the bathroom. Makes his way outside with her. Important to note that you should always leave the pets behind. Let the officers go back, which is happening here. We'll see that dog and that cat being quickly extracted from that monster dump of smoke. Officer Flynn's coughs, you can hear them starting to intensify, but not over yet. Makes his way back in and then back to that bathroom.

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Grabs that last cat, makes his way outside. All of this done. The dog, the two cats, in just under two minutes. Trace.

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It's unbelievable. It really is, that video. Aaron Cohen, stand by, if you would. We want to bring in Officer Flynn with us because he's Atlantic City. Officer Riley Flynn. Officer, I mean, just watching the video, very compelling. I know that was you in there. I'm wondering, as you're going in there, we see you, you got to open stair gates. You can't see. What are you thinking? And what's the. What's the. What's the first thing you have to do? Listen to the sound. What's going on inside?

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Well, the first thing was trying to figure out where I was. With all the smoke. It's hard to see. Hard to really kind of get your bearings. Started calling out to her. And eventually, just based off the layout of the house and where she was from the outside, I kind of figured it was going to be right up the stairs and against that front wall.

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Yeah. And I'm wondering if you lose visibility at all up there, is there enough sound, officer, to be able to kind of guide you in the right direction?

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Absolutely. That was probably the biggest thing was being able to hear her and just kind of direct me in the right direction, at least.

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Yeah. And it's interesting here because I know you made at least two trips in there because you're talking about the teenage girl, and then you have to go back for the pets. So give me an idea. What's the priority here? You get the humans out first and foremost, correct?

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Absolutely. Every time is save human life. And then I felt comfortable enough to go back in for the pets. I know that they're loved members of the family, so I would hope that, you know, somebody would do that for me.

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So any second thoughts, officer? I mean, when you're going in, any second thoughts at all? I mean, is it hot? Can you feel the heat? Do you think you need more protection as you're going in there?

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Definitely was hot. Definitely was in a bit of an uncomfortable position for me, but no second thoughts. It's my job.

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And when you're carrying this teenager out, what are you watching out for? I mean, it seems like that is as treacherous as trying to get into the building. Is that fair?

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Absolutely. Because just because you went in one way doesn't mean it's safe to go out that way. So once I got in there and I saw that I had a path kind of towards the direction I knew I needed to go, coming back out, I kind of took the same approach, making sure it was still safe to get out that way as well.

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Yeah. And who told you what to look out for when you inside? Do you have any instruction on from your superiors about what you're looking out for inside, or you just go in blind?

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We did get training in the police academy for, you know, fires and that court sort of stuff. We also have great leadership in our department that continue to educate us and train us and senior officers who, you know, help us, younger officers out when situations like this arise and definitely look up to a lot of them.

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Officer Riley Flynn with the Atlantic City Police Department. Hats off to you. Big applause. Great job. Thank you so much. I want to get back quickly to Aaron Cohen here because the training here is unbelievable. Aaron, you see the video. If I'm walking in, I'm like, I don't know where to go, what to do. You're just as blind as the people who were stuck inside.

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Yeah. You know, Trace, I think. I think the heroism within these cops, I think this is something that you're born with. You know, they get a ton of training in that academy, but to have those instincts when you're moving in like that. These aren't firemen. To be able to go in there and start just trusting your instincts and then leaning towards the end of that apartment, listening. I just, he went above and beyond, I believe, what's the, as far as his profession, but went in there, did an incredible job as a body cam hero through and through. Did it right that day. Hats off to Officer Flynn, the Atlantic City PD.

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Nicely job to him. Nice job to you, Aaron. Thank you so much. And the fact that he had to go in twice is also remarkable.

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