Overview
- The Westminster Police Department released body-camera footage on Sept. 23 that captures the rescue.
- Officers were dispatched around 9 a.m. on Sept. 18 to a home near Springdale Street and Chinook Avenue after a caller reported a partially bedridden person trapped with smoke entering the room.
- Video shows large flames erupting from the garage as officers lifted the woman through a window and carried her to safety.
- The rescued resident was treated at the scene for smoke inhalation, according to police.
- Orange County Fire Authority crews arrived shortly after and extinguished the fire before it spread, and the cause remains undetermined.