Girl, 5, rescues siblings from fire
Published: February 1, 2007
A 5-year-old girl is being called a hero after she got her three younger siblings out of their Independence Township house when the stove started smoking.
The children had been left alone by their mother.
Independence Township Assistant Fire Chief Bob Elizondo said the children were briefl y home alone Tuesday night in the 5300 block of Hillcrest, which is off Mann Road near the border with Waterford Township.
He said a neighbor walking down the street saw the girl, a toddler-age child and a high chair in the front yard.
The neighbor is believed to have called emergency workers.
When they arrived, four children were outside and light smoke was coming from the house.
Just then, their mother pulled up after a trip to pick up a couple of items at a CVS pharmacy.
Elizondo said the woman had started cooking food before leaving.
The girl got all of her siblings out of the house herself.
“The little 5-year-old became a hero,” Elizondo said.
No one was injured. There was some smoke damage inside the house.
Because the children were too young to be left alone, Oakland County Undersheriff Michael McCabe said the agency notified the Department of Human Services.
The sheriff’s office is also conducting its own investigation, the results of which will be turned over to prosecutors.
The children are staying with their grandmother.
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