--- title: Firefighters Save the Day by Gleefully Receiving Manicures description: Two Utah firefighters went above and beyond after a car accident, letting a toddler give them a major manicure moment. canonical: https://time.com/5703441/firefighters-nail-polish/ author: Rachel E. Greenspan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-10-17T15:56:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:00:54.679Z og:title: Firefighters Who Let This 2-Year-Old Give Them Manicures Couldn't Be Happier With the Results og:description: Not all heroes wear capes og:url: https://time.com/5703441/firefighters-nail-polish/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Firefighters Who Let This 2-Year-Old Give Them Manicures Couldn't Be Happier With the Results twitter:description: Not all heroes wear capes twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Firefighters Who Let This 2-Year-Old Give Them Manicures Couldn't Be Happier With the Results by [Rachel E. Greenspan](https://time.com/author/rachel-e-greenspan/) ## Rachel E. Greenspan Oct 17, 2019 3:56 PM UTC by [Rachel E. Greenspan](https://time.com/author/rachel-e-greenspan/) ## Rachel E. Greenspan Oct 17, 2019 3:56 PM UTC Two Utah [firefighters](https://time.com/5384992/firefighters-save-kitten-prius/) went above and beyond after they responded to a car accident, doing everything in they could to make a two-year-old girl feel more comfortable after the scare. That included a major manicure moment. While the girl, Braelyn, was not injured in Friday’s crash, the [North Davis Fire District](https://fox13now.com/2019/10/13/north-davis-firefighters-calm-girls-nerves-after-car-crash-by-letting-her-paint-their-nails/) battalion chief and captain recognized that she was afraid — but they also noticed she was holding [nail polish](https://time.com/5419483/nail-polish-chemicals/). So, in superhero mode, Battalion Chief Allen Hadley and Captain Kevin Lloyd let her [paint their nails](https://time.com/5644114/manicure-grandpa/). “Within minutes, the child was calmly paining their nails and had forgotten about the accident she had just experienced,” the fire department said Saturday in a [Facebook post](https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story%5Ffbid=1895388613897643&id=371675679602285), which soon went viral with over 6,000 shares and 20,000 likes as of Thursday morning. Being that Braelyn is just a little one, the nail polish did get all over the firefighters’ hands. Hadley, for his part, was not bothered by his new look. “A lot of the colors she wanted was pink and purple,” Hadley said in an [interview with Fox 13 Salt Lake City](https://fox13now.com/2019/10/15/firefighters-help-little-girl-calm-down-after-car-accident-with-nail-polish/). “But, I kind of got feeling that she wanted to keep my hand pink, and his purple.” Braelyn’s mother, Jocelyn Fernelius, said her daughter “was just happy,” which “made me feel like I could relax a little bit.” And the toddler wasn’t the only one who felt calmer after the manicures. “It just puts a smile on our faces too,” Hadley told Fox 13. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5703441/firefighters-nail-polish/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5703441/firefighters-nail-polish/"},"headline":"Firefighters Who Let This 2-Year-Old Give Them Manicures Couldn't Be Happier With the Results","datePublished":"2019-10-17T15:56:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:00:54.679Z","description":"Not all heroes wear capes","url":"https://time.com/5703441/firefighters-nail-polish/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Utah","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rachel E. Greenspan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/rachel-e-greenspan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5703441/firefighters-nail-polish/","name":"Firefighters Who Let This 2-Year-Old Give Them Manicures Couldn't Be Happier With the Results"}}]}] ```