Boy saves family from burning home

MCEWEN, Tenn. (WTVF) — A location bursts into flames with an unsuspecting household inside.

And this communicative mightiness person a precise antithetic ending if not for the speedy enactment of a 9-year-old boy, who discovered the occurrence and alerted everyone to get out. Their melodramatic flight was caught connected video.

The location was a full nonaccomplishment and it's incredibly fortunate the household — including 4 tiny children — were capable to marque it retired safely. Not overmuch is near of the location successful McEwen.

It was a precise adjacent call, and the cardinal to everyone's endurance was a azygous infinitesimal captured connected video.

Four siblings — ages nine, seven, 5 and 3 — were watching TV astir 8:30 p.m. past Thursday. Tristan — the 9-year-old — was sitting astatine the extremity of the sofa erstwhile thing went amiss.

"I heard this popular sound successful the bureau country and I smelled smoke," helium said.

He got up, opened the doorway and recovered the country was connected fire.

"It frightened maine bad," said Tristan who past ran to pass his mother, who was napping, and his begetter who was successful the garage.

"He came moving down the hallway screaming, 'Mom, there's a fire. Mom, there's a fire,'" said Tracey Cook.

She guesses that the occurrence engulfed their location successful a conscionable substance of minutes.

Tristan's 3 siblings had followed him retired of the room, and the household made it safely outside.

Only aboriginal did Cook look astatine video from cameras she acceptable up successful the location to support an oculus connected her children erstwhile she saw Tristan's speedy action.

"I was truthful arrogant and truthful blessed. He got america each out. He warned america all," she said.

The location is simply a full loss, but the household says they'll rebuild.

It tin beryllium replaced.

She is conscionable thankful the kids escaped unharmed.

"But if thing had happened to them I wouldn't beryllium capable to aftermath up. I mean we are family," Cook said.

It's believed the occurrence started the effect of an electrical abbreviated of immoderate type.

The household did suffer astir everything successful the occurrence including each the kids' Christmas gifts, but they accidental those successful the McEwen assemblage person stepped up to assistance regenerate them all.