Thursday, March 4, 2010

Sheriff Honors Emergency Personnel for Rescue

PASCAGOULA -- Sheriff Mike Byrd has honored emergency personnel who helped rescue an infant from a house fire Feb. 18 in Gulf Park Estates, according to local news reports.


The 5-month-old boy, Madden Graham Gunn, died Feb. 19 of burns and smoke inhalation at Children's Hospital in Birmingham, Ala.


The honorees included Chief Michael Belton with the Fontainebleau Volunteer Fire Department, Mike Hurring, a deputy with Jackson County Sheriff's Department, and Ocean Springs police officers Jason Byrd and Steven Dye.

Sheriff Byrd made the presentation during a supervisors meeting on Monday, March 1.


Grandmother Kathy V. Bradley, 57, was able to get out of the burning two-story home with 2-year-old Benjamin Gunn, but was unable to reach her grandson Madden.