Detroit firefighters are reunited with the little boy they rescued from a burning house.

DETROIT (FOX 2) – Two Detroit firefighters were reunited Monday with the little boy they rescued last January.

“You saved my child, you saved my family. Thank you,” said Jasmine Nesbitt.

Nesbitt left her husband and children at home to buy diapers on Jan. 22 when their home on West Hollywood Street caught fire.

Detroit Fire Lt. David Howard and firefighter Travis Winter responded moments later.

“Everyone was screaming that someone was inside, we went right in without even thinking,” said Travis Winter, a Detroit firefighter.

“It’s a little emotional right now. But he was there on the floor – I could feel his heart beating heavily,” said Lt. David Howard, DFD. “I grabbed him”

But now they had to get out alive.

“It was hot, zero visibility, smoke from floor to ceiling,” Winter said.

But these firefighters knew the family was counting on them.

“We went back the way we came,” Howard said. “As Winter continued to hold the fire away from us.”

It was thanks to their efforts that Jayvion survived.

After nearly nine months of treatment and more to come, Jasmine and her son arrived at the fire station on W. Seven Mile to say thank you.

“It’s truly a blessing that God chose to keep my baby alive,” Nesbitt said. “I am eternally grateful to the firefighters, to all the doctors.”

Howard and Winter will receive a medal for their life-saving work at the Detroit Public Safety Foundation awards ceremony next month.

“I’m eternally grateful,” she said.

As she continues to count her blessings, this mom hopes other parents will learn from this story and make sure they have a fire safety plan.

“Always have a plan: get out, stay outside and let the firefighters do their job because that’s what they’re trained to do,” she said. “Who knows, maybe he will become a future firefighter.”