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Know, one minute im driving down the road and the next minute i see a little girl swing open the door on this church bus and fall to the highway. it was heartbreaking, but instantly, you know, i used my ems training and firefighter training and assessed the scene as best as i could. i realized it wasnt a good place for her to land there, you know, typically, you know, ems were not suppose to move the patient unless theyre in a pretty dangerous situation. and because she was on state highway ther...

Incredible story captured. how is that little girl? >> reporter: i had an opportunity to speak to that man in the blue shirt, ryan, who tells me that before hes a firefighter he is a father. so the moment that he pulled into that scene there, what was a very heartbreaking scene, that paternal instinct immediately kicked in, rushing to that 4-year-old little girl as you see carefully picking her up off that asphalt and eventually taking her onto the bed of a pickup truck to wait for more help to ...

You see there the child falling out of that vehicle and you see this firefighter coming to the childs rescue. shes limp there as he picks her up. you can see the other person just aghast as it happened. that firefighter is joining me now for this cnn exclusive interview. ryan, amazing moment. how you had the wherewithal to just jump into action. i realize you are a firefighter, saving lives is what you do. again explain for me what you saw as it was happening and what your instincts told you. >>...

Motionless. in an interview i had with him that youre about to see, he describes how he was able to remain calm, yet at the same time just really follow his instincts. >> it was just unbelievable. one minute im just driving down the road, and the next minute i see a little girl swing over the door on this church bus and fall to the highway. it was heartbreaking. but instantly i used my ems training and firefighter training and assessed the scene as best as i could. i realized that it wasnt a goo...

Point where there was a brief moment of silence and i looked up to see if he was anywhere around which i did not find. once i saw that there was a clearing, we booked out of there. >> and there were other people around us as well. we were trying to get everybody out to safety. at that point -- >> and there were kids in the movie? >> yes, there was. i heard there was a 6-year-old kid that got shot. there was a baby in there. there was 14-year-old kids, 13-year-old kids. when we were leaving i saw...

See his face. he was in full riot gear. he looked like he was from a s.w.a.t. team. i couldnt see what he was in, and if he had taken off his mask and ran out, i really wouldnt have known the difference, hone honestly, because there were so many people chaotically running around and screaming and making noise. he could have slipped out at any point. >> even on the way in into the theater, as you started to get your seats, hearing all this about a description, someone with this fiery orange-red h...

13-year-old kids. young children there and adolescences, and as far as i can see, when we were leaving, i saw, just so many bodies just laying in the stairs, laying on the chairs. they were laying their lifeless. they looked dead to me, either that or injured. as we going out, he left before me. he ran before me, and i was crawling to try to get out, and i nudged into this gentleman and he had a gunshot in his back, and at that point i had some former ems training as an emt and it kind of kicked...