With red flags flying over Miramar Beach, Captain Mac Weaver, who was spending the July 4th weekend with his wife and two children, wouldn't let his own kids get in the water.
Not everyone heeded the warning. Within minutes of arriving at the beach, Weaver heard screams for help coming from two young boys struggling to swim.
Weaver, a nine year veteran with the Mobile Fire-Rescue Department, didn't hesitate. He used his training as a fire-medic and rushed to the kids' rescue.
"He just said here hold my glasses," remembers his wife, Jennifer. "He went in with his clothes on," she said.
Capt. Weaver doesn't know the children's names, and he doesn't know where they are from. If you ask him, he would say he was just doing his job, but his colleagues agree his actions were heroic.
He answered the call of duty 130 miles from the fire department training center where he works, and two young boys. ages ten and twelve are alive because of him.
Weaver was honored Wednesday as firefighter of the month.
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