<p class="speakable">An 8-year-old boy who leaped from a second-story window to a police officer during a house fire in New Jersey on Monday is recovering. </p><p class="speakable"><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/crime/police-and-law-enforcement" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Officer Dewitt Bacon,</a> 33, heard the child crying for help in the early morning hours, and recounted during a press conference the day after the fire what happened next.</p><p>"So intially I run to the back window. I try to just get eyes on him, so I yell to him to get the window, he gets to the window, and at this point I am thinking I have to get him out of there," he said, according to the <a href="https://www.app.com/picture-gallery/news/2025/08/26/asbury-park-police-body-camera-footage-of-child-rescue-during-house-fire/85835033007/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Asbury Park Press</a>. "The fire is going, it is smoking, just break it out. Break the window as fast as you can and try to get through." </p><p>The child's mother <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/us-regions/northeast/new-jersey" rel="noopener" target="_blank">rushed home</a> during the emergency from work, the paper reported.</p><p><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/911-calls-gruesome-police-report-details-dark-timeline-arizona-girls-tragic-death" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><strong>911 CALLS, POLICE REPORT DETAILS DARK TIMELINE TO ARIZONA GIRL'S TRAGIC DEATH</strong></a></p><p>A local resident, Officer Bacon and one additional Asbury Park police officer, John Walsh, were recognized for helping rescue the child at a press conference the day after the fire at city hall.</p><p>"As APFD members were arriving with just nine firefighters on duty — a Battalion Chief, truck company, engine company, and ambulance — Asbury Park Police Officers Walsh and Bacon acted decisively, rescuing a child trapped inside by catching him as he leapt from a second-floor window," Asbury Park Firefighters Union wrote on its Facebook page.</p><p><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/massachusetts-nursing-home-staffing-accused-fleeing-instead-helping-elderly-residents-escape" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><strong>MASSACHUSETTS NURSING HOME STAFFING ACCUSED OF FLEEING INSTEAD OF HELPING ELDERLY RESIDENTS ESCAPE</strong></a></p><p>"This is the second child rescued from a house fire in Asbury Park in just over a year — a powerful reminder of the life-saving importance of rapid response, adequate staffing, and regional cooperation," it continued.</p><p>Photos shared from the scene by the firefighters union show heavy, red flames and thick, black smoke billowing from the home. </p><p><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/download" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP</u></strong></a></p><p>The <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/fires" rel="noopener" target="_blank">cause of the fire</a> remains under investigation by police and two local fire departments.</p>