Orange County Sheriff's Office – 2024 Aerial Achievement Award Winner – Lifesaving Achievements

The Orange County Sheriff’s Office helped save a man experiencing a mental health crisis in an Orlando high-rise hotel. The individual was screaming and threatening to harm himself. He then set a fire in the hotel room. OCSO deployed an X10 to see inside the hotel room from a window, providing officers on the ground intel on the individual’s location and status. With this intel, officers were able to break into the room safely, apprehend the suspect and provide him with medical care avoiding what could have been a catastrophic event for the hotel and their community.