Marine Iraq Veteran-Firefighter Saved Boy Then Shoveled Snow

Marine-turned-firefighter saves boy from house fire 
Marine Corps Times
By Joshua Stewart, Staff writer
March 5, 2015

McVoy was an aircraft rescue and firefighting specialist in the Marine Corps. He served from 2000 to 2004, got out as a sergeant, and joined the Melrose Fire Department in 2006. He was recalled to the military in 2007 for a deployment to Iraq where he served in al Asad before getting out for good, he said.

Rob McVoy, a firefighter and Marine veteran, ran into a burning home in Massachusetts to rescue a boy inside. McVoy was not on duty at the time.
(Photo: Courtesy Robert McVoy Jr)

A Marine veteran and off-duty firefighter is being hailed as a hero after running into a burning home to rescue a child.

Rob McVoy was driving through Peabody, Massachusetts, on Feb. 23 after leaving his shift at the nearby Melrose Fire Department. But he was quickly diverted when he noticed a house had caught fire. "I looked across the highway and saw smoke coming from the second floor window," McVoy said. "I looked down the street and nobody was there."

He called 911, made a U-turn and drove toward the house.

"I ran up and I started pounding on the door and I could hear someone in there," he said.

But his work wasn't over. Eastern Massachusetts, like much of the Northeast, was covered in snow. McVoy said he started shoveling out fire hydrants so firefighters could hook up hoses when they arrived.
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