A man has been hailed a hero after he rescued a three year old girl from a raging house fire that left him with horrific burns across his entire body.
Carl Bradey lost everything he owned in the blaze, which was started by a candle in his Palmerston North rental property last month.
The 25-year-old smashed through a window to rescue the child of a family friend, suffering nerve damage that has left him unable to feel anything in his right arm ..
Bradey told Daily Mail Australia he awoke to the screams of his partner in the early hours of March 14 as the house they were sleeping in was engulfed in flames.
Bradey cut several of his main arteries on the broken glass and lost so much blood that he fainted as he reached the front of the house.
‘When I woke up I was in hospital in the worst pain I’ve ever had felt. Every time I moved it felt like glass was being smashed onto my skin,’ he said.
