“I would be willing to it all over again. If I had left him in the vehicle, I would have lived with the nightmare of the person screaming and bawling. I did the right thing.”

These were the words of Sea Lots resident Terrance David, 44, minutes after he received the Hummingbird Medal (Bronze) for gallantry at the National Awards ceremony, Queen’s Hall, St Ann’s, yesterday.

Last September, David and fellow Sea Lots resident Dashawn Hamilton, 29, risked their lives to rescue a police officer from a burning vehicle on the Beetham Highway just after 6 a.m.