The unidentified girl whose smile made a lasting impression on Maroney was about 4 or 5, one of a family of seven people that included the mother, father and five children.

Maloney lifted the family members one by one to the safety of an evacuation helicopter but never got the family’s or the little girl’s name.

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Mathew Palmer, a former Delta Air Lines employee, at his home in Atlanta on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025.  Palmer was fired less than two weeks after writing a post on social media about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. (Natrice Miller/AJC)