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Bloomingdale native Brady Pratt joins his K-9 unit dog Baska, a 4-year-old Belgian Malinois, in this photo. Pratt works in special operations for the U.S. Border Patrol along the Texas-Mexico border and rescued two young girls from a burning vehicle on Sunday, Dec. 27 in Texas.
(Provided photo) SARANAC LAKE When Brady Pratt heads out on the job as a member of a United States Border Patrol special operations unit working in the Rio Grande Valley, he expects to come across some harrowing situations. Along with his work dog Baska, Pratt knows that saving lives along the Texas-Mexico border is sometimes just part of another day on the job.
Upstate NY native rescues 2 girls from burning vehicle in Texas
Updated Dec 28, 2020;
An Upstate New York native saved two girls from a burning vehicle in Texas, according to multiple reports.
The Adirondack Daily Enterprise reports Brady Pratt, who grew up in the Adirondacks hamlet of Bloomingdale, N.Y., and graduated from Saranac Lake High School in 2004, was on a road trip last Sunday, Dec. 20, with his family to pick up furniture in Corpus Christi for their home in McAllen, Texas. Along the way, they came upon a fiery head-on crash with two vehicles in Nueces County.
According to The McAllen Monitor, a male driver traveling east on FM 665 was passing multiple vehicles at an “unsafe speed” when it struck an SUV with two women and two children heading west. Both vehicles rolled off the road and caught fire.
A Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol agent is being credited with quick action to save two children from a burning car in Nueces County. Brady Pratt was driving with his family on FM 665 Sunday when his wife saw smoke coming from a two-vehicle crash. Pratt used his years of training as a member of Border Patrol Search, Trauma and Rescue to assess the situation and then climb into the back of a burning SUV and rescue two children. The two adults in the front seats of the SUV died in the crash. The sector chief of the Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol commended Pratt’s action in a statement, saying he remained committed to the service and protection of others even while off-duty.
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