By the time Qualls reached the house,the family had gotten out,but their home was severely damaged.His coworkers had found JoJo hiding under a pile of clothes in a back bedroom.He had stopped breathing and had been given CPR and rushed to the hospital.Qualls learned that JoJo was now on life support and might not make it through the night.He rushed to the hospital with Lt.Mark Eskew,who placed a stuffed teddy bear in a firefighter’s suit on JoJo’s bed.
“I just kept praying my little boy would open his eyes,”Bateman recalls.“There was nothing else I could do.They were pumping black and thick liquid out of his lungs and stomach for days.”
After a few days,though,JoJo regained consciousness,and the tubes were taken out of his throat.While he began to slowly recover,the local newspaper and TV stations got hold of the story,and the Secret Santa Plan of Qualls and his fellow firefighters snowballed.Before long,the fire station was overflowing with boxes of toys,food,towels,and clothes.People called,wanting to donate furniture and appliances(电器)too.By December 23,Bateman and Tubbs had moved their kids into a new rental home.By Christmas Eve,JoJo was ready to leave the hospital,and the firefighters were ready to deliver the family their very own Christmas miracle.
“These guys aren’t just firefighters,”says Bateman,“they’re our guardian angels.If they hadn’t installed a smoke detector that first day they came to our house,we wouldn’t have known when the fire started.Then they went the extra ten miles to give us a Christmas.”
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