Asbury Park cops save boy who jumped from burning 2nd-story window Dan Alexander Published: August 26, 2025 Fire at a house on Prospect Avenue in Asbury Park 8/25/25 (Asbury Park Professional Firefighters Local 384 via Facebook)

🔥 Officers arrived as firefighters were coaxing a boy to jump

🔥The 8-year-old boy jumped into the arms of the officers

🔥He's the 2nd child rescued from a burning house in Asbury Park in a year

ASBURY PARK — Two police officers are being praised for rescuing an 8-year-old boy who was trapped inside a second-floor room during a house fire Monday morning.

NJ Police Benevolent Association President Peter Andreyev said officers John Walsh and Dewitt Bacon arrived at the home on Prospect Avenue in Asbury Park as it was engulfed in flames around 8:45 a.m.

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