DES MOINES, Iowa - Four local police officers helped save children from a burning apartment building in the middle of the night Monday in Des Moines.
Three of the children were dropped out a third floor window into the arms of officers below.
Senior Des Moines Police Officers Cole Johnson, Craig Vasquez, Tyler Kelley, and Casey Sanders are being called heroes by people commenting on social media.
The fire was called in to 911 just after 3:00 a.m. Monday, to an apartment building in the 3700 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway.
No one was hurt.