{"id":72369,"date":"2026-04-22T05:54:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/right-place-at-the-right-time-arizona-utility-worker-saves-toddler-from-rush-hour-traffic\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T05:54:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:54:51","slug":"right-place-at-the-right-time-arizona-utility-worker-saves-toddler-from-rush-hour-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/right-place-at-the-right-time-arizona-utility-worker-saves-toddler-from-rush-hour-traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Right place at the right time\u2019: Arizona utility worker saves toddler from rush-hour traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Butler leaped into action to save child who was running into busy intersection in downtown Phoenix<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/arizona\">Arizona<\/a> electric utility worker is said to have issued \u201ca powerful reminder of what it means to look out for one another\u201d when, while on duty, he stopped a toddler from running into heavy car traffic after bolting away from a parent.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Butler\u2019s timely intervention was captured recently in a hair-raising video recorded by a surveillance camera in downtown Phoenix and released recently by his employer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1497056902132807\">Arizona Public Service<\/a> (APS).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/22\/arizona-toddler-rescue-traffic\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Butler leaped into action to save child who was running into busy intersection in downtown Phoenix Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox An Arizona electric utility worker is said to have issued \u201ca powerful reminder of what it means to look out for one another\u201d &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Right place at the right time\u2019: Arizona utility worker saves toddler from rush-hour traffic\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/right-place-at-the-right-time-arizona-utility-worker-saves-toddler-from-rush-hour-traffic\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Right place at the right time\u2019: Arizona utility worker saves toddler from rush-hour traffic\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}