If youāre still young enough to have someone telling you when to go to bed, remember this story the next time your mother tries to tell you enoughās enough for one day.
12-year-old Jaxxyn Wood, from Kentucky, was up at 3:30am playing video games when he āsmelled something really bad, like Legos on fireā. What he smelled was actually the familyās ice-maker on fire, with smoke starting to fill the hallway of his house.
After a quick attempt at putting the fire out himself, Jaxxyn raised the alarm, waking his family so they could evacuate the home. The fire eventually spread from the kitchen to the ādining areasā, and there was extensive smoke damage to the rest of the property.
Jaxxynās actions may have saved their lives, and definitely saved the house, as there were no smoke detectors installed in the home.
Before you go giving video games and poor sleeping habits too much credit, Jaxxyn knew exactly what to do because firefighters had visited his school and told him.
āA fireman came to our school and he said if thereās ever a fire thereās most likely gonna be smoke in the air,ā he said. āSo you want to duck down and get everyone you can and get out.ā
12-year-old boy saves family from burning home [WKYT, via Game Politics]
