Talk about Father’s Day most heartwarming and encouraging story. ♥️ A man who suffered devastating 3rd- and 4th-degree burns to over 40% of his body after surviving the deadly Station nightclub fire has shared his joy at the birth of his baby daughter!! This is Joe. On February 20th, 2003 while enjoying a rock concert with a girlfriend, a special effects malfunction caused a fire to break out after using pyrotechnics in their set. A hundred people died and more than 200 were injured as concert-goers desperately tried to escape. Some, like Joe and his former girlfriend, suffocated among the crowd. The nightclub was way over capacity. Realizing quickly what was going on I made my way from near the front row to the nearest exit. In an effort to protect Karla, I placed my leather vest over her. As we made it towards the exit people fell in front of me and then on top of me. Karla suffocated and did not survive, but she was not burned. I was trapped and conscious throughout the entire ordeal. I could hear everything going on around me. The sounds of yelling were quite loud. Then it grew quieter and quieter. Then it was just me. Next, I heard the voice of a firefighter, “we’ve got one over here.” After suffering burns to 40 per cent of his body and nearly losing his scalp, he spent a year in hospital undergoing skin grafts. He lost his fingers, toes and his left eye. To date I have had 128 tune-ups (surgeries) and counting. I will continue to have surgeries for the rest of my life. But in 2007 he met Carrie, who herself had been burned as a child, at a burn victims conference. They are got engaged after 2 years and welcomed their first child Hadley shortly after. “Hadley’s so cute. I feel happy, nervous, fulfilled. Nobody knows what’s coming in an hour or two or five. I’m just determined to be the best dad I can be. I went into surgery to receive a hand transplant – so now I can feel my baby daughter’s soft hair.”
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