Early on the morning of 27 November 1982, Sgt. Claude Godin of Canadian Forces Base Bagotville was alerted to the fact that fire had broken out in the mobile home next door. He hurried over and found a frantic mother unable to reach her seventeen-month-old son, trapped in his bedroom. Sgt. Godin broke down the back door, entered and groped his way to the child's room through thick smoke. He found the child crying in his crib, quickly seized him and carried him out in his arms. Just as he left the trailer, the roof burst into flames. But for Sgt. Godin's brave intervention, the child would almost certainly have died.