On February 8, 2004, Michael Morrison helped his wife and two small daughters escape their burning house, in Bolsover, Ontario. Awakened by an early morning fire, Mr. Morrison was met by a wall of flames when he opened his bedroom door. With no other escape, he broke and splintered a window with his bare fists and made it outside with his wife and their infant daughter. Realizing that his two-year-old daughter was still inside, he raced to the front door but was forced back by the flames. Despite severe bleeding, he climbed on a lawn chair to reach the toddler's bedroom window, reached in, grabbed hold of the unconscious child and pulled her out. He then risked his life a third time, entering the house through another window to look for his son, mistakenly believed to be in his bedroom.