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Despite injuries, mom rescues her children from fire
Despite injuries, mom rescues her children from fire
A young mother jumped almost 15 feet out a window and despite having a broken foot, cuts and bruises, she broke another window and raced up a flight of stairs to rescue her two small children from the fire that destroyed her home Tuesday morning. picked by henkspaan 10 months ago
tags mother fire children courage
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 drewski
10 months ago
"There were three smoke detectors in the house, but two of the smoke detectors had no batteries and one had been disconnected, Lacy said."

..and that leaves...???

Glad things worked out, though. Smart thinking
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 tigerton...
10 months ago
Would have been smarter to put in the batteries. She might have been able to save the kids AND the house.
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 ReBoot
10 months ago
Sounds like a good candidate for the Mother of the Year award.
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 imnotyoo
10 months ago
« ReBoot : Sounds like a good candidate for the Mother of the Year award.
Aside from the having no working smoke detectors..

Why would someone not have working smoke detectors? Think about it.
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 drewski
10 months ago
« tigertony : Would have been smarter to put in the batteries. She might have been able to save the kids AND the house.
AND her foot =)
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 tigerton...
10 months ago
« imnotyoo : Aside from the having no working smoke detectors..

Why would someone not have working smoke detectors? Think about it.
I submit that there's no such thing as a non-working smoke detector. It's either a smoke detector or a paperweight.
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 Kevertje
10 months ago
« drewski : "There were three smoke detectors in the house, but two of the smoke detectors had no batteries and one had been disconnected, Lacy said."

..and that leaves...???

Glad things worked out, though. Smart thinking
Continuing the quote:

“This was lucky for them,” Lacy said. “I want people to know smoke alarms save lives.
Sure they do, but for some reason I don't think smoke detectors saved any lives in this case...
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 sykeo56
10 months ago
::sales pitch:: Want to slowly drain your nine-volt batteries? Then buy this circle
-Mitch Hedberg
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 Blueteab...
10 months ago
I've got a new hero :)
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 Alton
10 months ago
My step father is a claims adjuster, and he said that close to half the homes in America do not have working smoke alarms.
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 bunnysut...
10 months ago
Ours works so well we can't use the foreman grill in the house without the windows open. But, you just don't think about those things sometimes. Sort of out of sight out of mind. We just found that our extinguishers in the office hadn't been inspected since 2002.

Regardless, that is one determined mom. Good for her!
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