While we sit back and watch the images of Peter Brock’s state funeral and Steve Irwin’s memorial service, we will hear the word ‘hero’ used a lot.
Last Friday night, disabled Killarney Caravan Park caretaker Jamie O’Brien rightfully earned the title ‘hero’ after a horrific accident.
O’Brien has an acquired brain injury and a paralysed right arm after a motorbike accident eight years ago.
However that didn’t stop him racing in to save 15 year old Jessica Scroggie, her three year old sister Pip and their two year old brother Henry from a burning tent.
“I saw it and thought ‘Jesus Christ’ and then jumped into panic mode,” O’Brien told the Warrnambool Standard.
“I can still hear the screaming and see the flames on their bodies.”
Jessica has burns to 80 per cent of her body and Pip suffered 30 per cent burns.
Henry was saved relatively unscathed after O’Brien and another passer by went in, searched around and pulled him out.
O’Brien is shunning most media request.
“Anyone else would have done it in the same situation,” he said.
“You just run off adrenalin.”
O’Brien is a real Aussie hero who deserves a lifetime of recognition for what he did.
To read more about O’Brien’s story, visit
http://the.standard.net.au/
