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INDIANAPOLIS — More than eight years after a house fire in Indianapolis, one firefighter can’t forget the little girl he met inside that burning home.
Sunday, for the first time — they met again. Mya Eppert was only 8 months old in 2006 when a fire tore through her home on the 1300 block of Medford Avenue. Private Kevin Gill was on the scene that day and heard there may be a baby inside. On hands and knees, he searched the home, finding Mya in her crib — though at the time, part of him actually wished what he’d found was only a doll.
“When I picked her up, her head rolled back and that’s when I knew that this was a child.” When they made it out, she was rushed to the hospital — lifeless. All these years later, Mya isn’t lifeless anymore.
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