Task & Purpose | November 13, 2024

A Navy sailor assigned to a nuclear submarine scaled the wall of a burning apartment building to save multiple people, including an entrapped woman and her son Tuesday, an act captured on video by a bystander.

The video shows Petty Officer 1st Class Gabriel Journey, an Electronics Technician Nuclear, assigned to the USS Albany fast attack submarine in Norfolk, climbing to a narrow ledge on the exterior of an apartment as a woman calls for help from a window and as smoke and flames close in. Journey pulled the woman and her son from the flames, easing them into the arms of the crowd beneath.

Journey also helped rescue two more people from a different window using a ladder before the apartment was fully engulfed.

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