my foot out, my arm out, and then sticking my forehead out because it was too hot, and it was too overwhelming. >> i was able to scoop her up and get her out of the apartment. this young girl was in my arms, had suffered burns and just -- she was a child. >> reporter: that child was anissa, right there with her mother, melissa. her father did not survive. but ever since she was a little girl, she made a promise to herself that she would become a firefighter to honor her father and the firefighter who saved her life. enrolling in indian river state college fire academy in ft. pierce, florida, grueling hours of intense training. after graduating, anissa tracking down the retired firefighter, lieutenant steven mcnally, to say thank you 16 years later. one firefighter to another. >> thank you. >> my last memory of her was that night and that fire and her