Friday morning. What began as a normal night turned into a nightmare as their trailer filled with water in a matter of minutes.

With no time to wait for help, Julian acted fast.

He punched through a window to give his family a chance to escape to the roof. But in doing so, he severed an artery — an injury his fiancée said nearly took his arm off.

“By 6 o’clock my husband was dead,” Christina told KHOU 11. “He had lost all of his blood. He looked at me and the kids, my mother-in-law and said, ‘Sorry I’m not going to make it, I love y’all.’”

His words were his final goodbye.

Julian’s heroic act helped save his entire family. Christina, their children, and Julian’s mother all survived thanks to the opening he created. But the