Hero Cop
Peter O’Hagan was lucky his blue-clad guardian angel was nearby when his van caught fire on I-55 as he drove in Chicago.
As O’Hagan tried to remove his welding gear from the burning van, Chicago Police Officer Claudio Salgado dashed up and pulled the Oak Lawn man away seconds before the vehicle exploded.
On Sunday, the two men exchanged handshakes — then hugs — at the Central District station where Salgado works as O’Hagan thanked the veteran officer for rescuing him last Tuesday.
And this isn't the first time he's gotten a Lifesaving Award:
The four-year department veteran will be nominated for a lifesaving award, officials said Sunday.
He received that award last year for preventing a person with Alzheimer’s disease from jumping into Lake Michigan, said his boss...
Good habits are hard to break.
Labels: good news
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
54 Comments:
God bless this officer.
OT ~ Fundraiser - Thanks, SCC.
Wine Tasting And Police Fundraiser
There's a fundraiser next month, sponsored by the 23rd District Police Steering Committee and we hope to see a huge turnout. If you can't make it, please buy some raffle tickets:
Wine Tasting
Sunday, April 17, 2-5 pm
Sports Corner- 956 W. Addison
Admission $10; raffle tickets are $5/each, 6 for $20.
Proceeds go to fund bike and needed bicycle accessories for the 23rd District bicycle police officers.
Now thats a good MAN
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Retirement is GREAT! Right now I'm cruising down the Mekong River on my way to Vinh Long. Never thought there was life after the job...but was I wrong. Thanks SCC!
Way to go Claudio!! U da man!!
Claud "dio" "dio" great job buddy! Stay safe. 07-2B
this p.o. was also involved in a shooting when he only had 1 - 2 yrs on the job! god bless him
Great job Officer Salgado - you are a true hero.
On another note, great job to you too SCC for screening your posts. I went on Shaved's blog and was disgusted by the racial vitriol. I understand that people need to vent, but that type of hateful rhetoric is hurtful to many good and productive black people. It also confirms to many liberals what they probably already believe: that racism is alive and well and that police are bigoted and hateful fools who single out minorities. It is more likely than not, that the same persons who had used these racial epitaphs on Shaved‘s blog would be the first to help someone in trouble no matter what their race. Why stoop to the lowest common denominator! We as police are better than that - just something to think about.
God bless and Stay Safe
Great job officer. It is men and women like you who truly inspire me to become a police officer.
Well, I am proud to be the Chicago Police.
I am proud to be in MSF.
I am proud to say that with the 10hr schedule and a few cu days a month, I work about 50 days less a year then I did when I was in the district.
Therefore, I love MSF.
(Join MSF, take advantage of the City of Chicago)
Good job Officer. The dept doesn't do a good job of getting the heroic acts of its officers out to the media. Or even recognizing, quietly, heroic acts with a simple award.
Please keep reading the following story. I'm not going to give names, dates, or locations. Those involved know what, and who I'm writing about. But really this is a story about every no-clout "real police" copper who goes out there to do his job while these jagoffs in white shirts, the media, and politicians could care less.
Late into the shift of third watch a house fire call is dispatched. My partner and I respond to the scene. We park a block away so not to impede access to the fire scene for CFD who are not on scene yet. We sprint to the building, a brick two-flat in which one of the bedrooms in fully engulfed in flame. A family member says that elderly family members are still inside. Other R/Os attempt to gain access thru the front which was blocked. My partner and I go to the rear to enter thru the porch. Thick black smoke is pouring out the back door which leads to the kitchen. The smoke was pushing all the way to the floor except for a couple inches. CFD started to arrive on scene, and I ran to the trucks to tell them that people were still trapped inside. When I ran back to the rear my partner said he could hear a woman screaming and that he could see her white socks in the couple inches of space on the floor not obscured by the smoke. Then in an act of selfless heroics my partner held his breath and disappeared into the smoke to grab the person attached to those little white socks. Back he came with a little old lady in a white night gown screaming in panic for her husband who was last seen in the bedroom fully engulfed in flames. The old lady was clinging to the doorway of the rear porch while my partner was choking on the smoke pouring out around him. Other R/Os where able to pull her away from the doorway to safety. What did my partner get for putting his life in danger to save a citizen of Chicago? Nothing. Not a damn fucking thing. Myself and other R/Os who witnessed this told our Sgt who was on scene what happened. What did he do? Nothing. He kept bull shitting us. "I'm working on a life saving award for your partner" he would say. For over a year I pestered him every chance I got. I tried embarrassing him in front of higher ranking white shirts, but since it wasn't a curfew they didn't give a shit. Finally a new watch commander came to the watch and I told her about what my partner did and what my Sgt didn't do. So over a year later she lit a fire under my Sgts ass, he turned off the HULU and wrote up the necessary paperwork for an award. How do things stand now? Well, 18 months later the paperwork is in, but still no award.
P.S. If I hurt anybodys little feelings...TOO FUCKING BAD. If you had spent 30 mintues doing your job as a supervisor, and wrote this up when it happened you wouldn't be reading this.
I feel much better now. Good night, I'm going to bed now and I'm going to squeeze my wife's butt and maybe...well you know.
Ron Sodini invented the event number....
U MAKE US PROUD OFFICE.
Ron Sodini invented the event number....
3/28/2011 04:20:00 AM
He also invented how to drive into a road full of cement and try to hide it! We still remember you JAG-BAG.
Thats cuz he was trained in 006
P.S. If I hurt anybodys little feelings...TOO FUCKING BAD. If you had spent 30 mintues doing your job as a supervisor, and wrote this up when it happened you wouldn't be reading this.
I feel much better now. Good night, I'm going to bed now and I'm going to squeeze my wife's butt and maybe...well you know.
3/28/2011 03:41:00 AM
OK, in addition to being a self congratulating goof, you are really kind of creepy. Maybe that's why your Sgt didn't write you up...even though you pestered him every chance you got.
If you want hero worship you should have learned how to throw a football or become a fireman.
As far as Ron Sodini goes, the event number was his idea and for that alone he should be spit on. The event number is a reason for Sgts. not to do their jobs.
Sorry 23rd district bike team. That's what uniform allowance is for. I've been on the bike team and know what u have to buy. Stick with your leather equipment and the cost isn't much. Have fun.
I believe this was the same guy(copper) that got in a shoot out with some armed robbers off duty when he was in six- couldn't be a nicer guy-
Great job Officer!!!
Kudos to the officer and all who serve!
Nice Job!!!
Suntimes' comment section has only 11 comments and most were edited out.
Believe it or not, I welcome the negative anti-police comments because they show how many fucking assholes there really are in the world.
They may help eventually turn the public in our favor.
What's up with all this Ron " the cement Denver boots" Sodini fanfare all of the sudden? Is he trying for a higher spot so that he can order the bike patrols to keep an eye on his house all day long.
With this recent spat of Police being shot at, and officers being killed we MUST demand answers as to why officers aren't being hired. Call out the mayor, politicians and our Superintendant. This absolute Bullshit press conferance about "adding officers to the street" was a bunch of lies. Putting tac officers in uniform doesn't add one single body to the street. Hillard went in front of the camera and FLAT OUT LIED!!! We must demand that more officers be hired IMMEDIATELY before another officer is killed while working undermanned.
If anyone wants to see how our court system is broke look at the UPTOWN UPDATE website. 2 shitheads shot a women holding her baby last year in 023 . There intention was a rival gangbanger but of course they missed. Their sentance?? 4 and 8 months. (and the victim fully cooperated).
Good job Officer. The dept doesn't do a good job of getting the heroic acts of its officers out to the media. Or even recognizing, quietly, heroic acts with a simple award.
Yeah, they give those awards to p/os who tell drunks that swam to the middle of Mckinnley park pond to swim back or they will get locked up. Opps! I saved one.
The real reward is the actual act. That lady and the lord knows what u did and thats what counts.
3:22am
Can't we have a thread where an MSF po doesn't make an ass of himself? Seriously dude, nobody gives a rat's ass that you are getting over on the City. Congrats Claudio!!! That is a REAL policeman...unlike the self-loving MSF!
-JR in 001
To 3/28/2011 04:20:00 AM
Some would say "mandated" rather than invented, but what does that have to do with Officer Salgado?
Great job, claudio!! For the poster, whose partner who went out and risked his life to save those folks in that fire, God bless you. Your story will hit home with over half of the department. Supervisors will take it upon themselves to decide what they deem worthy or they just dont know how to do the paper work. Take to heart, we know our heroes and what has been denied. God bless and keep serving and protecting, the great feeling in your heart, is way better then the denied ribbons.
Well, I am proud to be the Chicago Police.
I am proud to be in MSF.
I am proud to say that with the 10hr schedule and a few cu days a month, I work about 50 days less a year then I did when I was in the district.
Therefore, I love MSF.
(Join MSF, take advantage of the City of Chicago)
3/28/2011 03:22:00 AM
get over it stroke and realize youre getting dumped. you also love msf because instead of riding on jobs and helping out with the backlog, you were inside the district taking up space using a computer facebooking while the whole team processed a one bagger
I feel much better now. Good night, I'm going to bed now and I'm going to squeeze my wife's butt and maybe...well you know.
3/28/2011 03:41:00 AM
so, how's that shiner doing?
Good job...no wait...excellent job office hope your safe God Bless CPD.
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Retirement is GREAT! Right now I'm cruising down the Mekong River on my way to Vinh Long. Never thought there was life after the job...but was I wrong. Thanks SCC!
3/28/2011 12:34:00 AM
Wifi is a wonderful thing.
Finally a new watch commander came to the watch and I told her about what my partner did and what my Sgt didn't do. So over a year later she lit a fire under my Sgts ass, he turned off the HULU and wrote up the necessary paperwork for an award. How do things stand now? Well, 18 months later the paperwork is in, but still no award.
are you seriously coming on here crying like this??? Its your fkn job. Looks like you didnt save the woman to save a life but to get another award for your chest. We dont do this job to get awards or pats on the back. Sure they are nice but if you dont get an award then you dont get an award. there are several sgts in my district who are great about writing guys up for just about anything and we appreciate that. But to come on this site infront of your peers crying about how you didnt get a ribbon is rediculous. I have made many great arrests that were put in and denied or just not put in at all. You know what my satisfaction was????? Knowing what I did and knowing that I did my job and bad guy went to prison for a long time. Your the guy that dreams of saving a life then ending up on the news in your baseball hat telling everyone how you saved the day. Do your job and stay in the backround. Im sure the woman and her family are greatful for your actions but youve completly ruined your story by crying and pouting how you want an award. I think I would be 100% satisfied with knowing that I had saved a life that day... a piece of ribbon on my chest does not prove anything. Sure, many people get awards for nonsense but who cares... you dont need to pout about it to everyone. You sir, are pathetic. A glory hound who wants everyone to know what you did and how your a hero... There are 13000 heros on this job who dont get recognized on a daily basis...get in line youngin
I once carried out a legless man like a baby with his prostetic leg in hand durring a fire, the apartment went up in flames. The best part, a sgt. Didnt even show up to the scene. When you are not part of the ass kissers on a sgts log, no one gives a shit.
P.S. If I hurt anybodys little feelings...TOO FUCKING BAD. If you had spent 30 mintues doing your job as a supervisor, and wrote this up when it happened you wouldn't be reading this.
I feel much better now. Good night, I'm going to bed now and I'm going to squeeze my wife's butt and maybe...well you know.
hey superboy, we dont do this job for awards. Although a good job you completly cancelled it out with your whining because you didnt get an award. Why not just chalk it up to a job well done and have pride in what you did. We dont do this job for thanks and ribbons. You do it because you want to do it, because you have to do it and because it is our job. Stop blubbering on about how you got jipped out of an award. Since when do p.o's approach a sgt and ESPECIALLY a watch commander to be put in for an award. The way it always was and should be is that a sgt says, "hey kid, give me the paper and ill take a look at it.. maybe ill put you in for something." Then you go over his head because he hasnt done it and tattle on him to the watch commander like a 4th grader? haha, you are lucky im not a watch commander or the boss that day because i would tell you, job well done now get out of my office and take it up with your sgt... thats pathetic, approaching sgts and watch commanders begging them to give you a ribbon. Your probably the guy who wears your obama award, crime reduction and attendance award. guys like you is why this department is filled with a bunch of undisiplined pu**ies.
my partner once dragged two idiots out of a burning building who were trying to save their cats--- the sgt told him to make sure that he came in for check off on the hour--- so much for being a hero----
Anonymous said...
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Retirement is GREAT! Right now I'm cruising down the Mekong River on my way to Vinh Long. Never thought there was life after the job...but was I wrong. Thanks SCC!
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Funny how life works! I took the same cruise before coming on the job and now he's doing it after leaving the job! I bet that less people are shooting at him though!
I met Officer Salgado a couple of years ago in CIT training for a week. I must say he is a class act with an amazing background as a person and an officer. I'm sure this is not the last we hear of this guys actions (all positive of course). Tante Salute Claudio, da tu amico Franco!
Officer Salgado is a true hero. Could anybody be more Irish looking than that O'Hagan guy, I'm just sayin'
Anonymous said...
3:22am
Can't we have a thread where an MSF po doesn't make an ass of himself? Seriously dude, nobody gives a rat's ass that you are getting over on the City. Congrats Claudio!!! That is a REAL policeman...unlike the self-loving MSF!
-JR in 001
3/28/2011 11:07:00 AM
3/28/2011 03:22:00 AM
get over it stroke and realize youre getting dumped. you also love msf because instead of riding on jobs and helping out with the backlog, you were inside the district taking up space using a computer facebooking while the whole team processed a one bagger
3/28/2011 11:47:00 AM
Amen. I stated before that I spoke the truth of this Unit. EVERYONE see's this!!! Please send them back to be the Police again. Dismantle the ego's before it's too late for them....
This job is a joke. 95% of these awards and ribbons are a joke. So many people get them that shouldn't. So many more people don't get them that should. Bad bosses = less awards. Good bosses = more awards. I've seen people with a chest full of b.s ribbons that couldn't process a misdemeanor arrest without asking 20 questions. In the end, who really gives a shit.
TO:
3:22am
Can't we have a thread where an MSF po doesn't make an ass of himself? Seriously dude, nobody gives a rat's ass that you are getting over on the City. Congrats Claudio!!! That is a REAL policeman...unlike the self-loving MSF!
-JR in 001
3/28/2011 11:07:00 AM
there might be quite a few boners in MSF, but do you really think they are the ones posting these quips over and over again?
If you do, then you are not as smart as you think.
"Thick black smoke is pouring out the back door which leads to the kitchen. The smoke was pushing all the way to the floor except for a couple inches. CFD started to arrive on scene, and I ran to the trucks to tell them that people were still trapped inside. When I ran back to the rear my partner said he could hear a woman screaming and that he could see her white socks in the couple inches of space on the floor not obscured by the smoke. Then in an act of selfless heroics my partner held his breath and disappeared into the smoke to grab the person attached to those little white socks."
--3/28/2011 03:41:00 AM
...and for anyone who has not been in one of these, "thick black smoke" means that you cannot see an operating 100-watt bare light bulb 6" from your nose.
Good job kid, you make us proud to be the police.
I pulled a guy out of a burning house who wouldn't leave because he wanted to save his Jordan shoe collection...I didn't get on the news or a ribbon, but I did get another "West Side" Story
(OT) Love the street justice here hope more citizens take care of business nice!
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/news/local/ct-met-teen-killed-20110328,0,1752282.story
Can I take this opportunity to say something about gratitude? More than 20 years ago, I was trapped on the 3rd floor of an apartment after the first floor had been firebombed. I was rescued by a fightfighter. I can't tell you a thing about him because I could see absolutely nothing. He grabbed me and dragged me down the stairs and when we hit the steet, he disappeared. I never even saw him.
I had to leave my apartment and the neighborhood. I was going through an intense stalking situation with my ex-husband, so I had a lot going on. If I'd known his name I would have at least sent a card, but I wasn't in a place to be able to investigate. When I was able to, I felt like it was too late to figure out who he was.
I want you to know that I've thought about that firefighter at least a hundred times with total and complete gratitude. I'm sure it is the same for all of you who have had such a profound affect on someone's life. Just because they didn't take the time to recognize you doesn't mean they didn't care -- it just might mean they were too overwhelmed with life at the time to figure out how to do it.
Every once in while, you should sit back and take a moment to think about all the possible people out there whose names you don't even know who appreciate you for being there when they needed them.
The proud mother of an CPD officer (who, by the way, has been on long enough to not be the hair-gel police)
My partner and I pulled two women from a car which started on fire after a traffic crash.
No award,no big deal
What makes me feel good is that every year since than the older of the two women sends me a christmas card to the station
Look at the big picture
Your actions have life long repurcussions
Great job, Officer! Kudos to you. :)
That's alright!!! May God continue to Bless you Salgado!!
Anonymous Anonymous said...
My partner and I pulled two women from a car which started on fire after a traffic crash.
No award,no big deal
What makes me feel good is that every year since than the older of the two women sends me a christmas card to the station
Look at the big picture
Your actions have life long repercussions
3/29/2011 09:20:00 AM
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I would MUCH rather have that than one of the Department ribbons.
a nice guy, cant speak a lick of english but sweet fella!
Well done. I've criticized police in the past, but credit is due where it is due. The officer is an outstanding citizen and member of the police department. Kudos, bravos, and extended congratulations.
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