Mother credits 4-year-old with saving family from fire
A Rochester family escaped their burning apartment, and the mother said they're alive because of her four-year-old daughter.
I grabbed the girls and we started running down the hallway and it was like it was coming. It was coming right at us, mother Kristy Hough said.
Dark smoke could be seen miles away from the Dewey Avenue building. A family of four lost everything in the fire that was started by a candle.
I was in the kitchen on the phone and my daughter said, Mommy there's a fire, Hough said.
Kristy Hough's four-year-old daughter Kayla was wrapped in a blanket on the couch in the living room. A candle was sitting on the end table. She saw the fire first and told her mom.
Hough said she tried to put it out herself as she called 911. However, fire officials say a store owner on the first floor was the one who called 911.
I was filling up my coffee pot. I dumped it on there three times before I got out. It seemed like it made it worse if anything, Hough said.
Six-year-old Breona was playing in her room when she came out she saw the smoke. I just see it in the hallway coming, she said.
What started as a small fire turned into a mass of flames and smoke.
I turned around and it was just up the wall and over the ceiling, the windows were busting. The smoke was everywhere, Hough said.
Hough and her two girls ran out of the house. Her son, David, was down the street playing football. He didn't know that we were ok because he didn't see us outside, Hough said.
Paramedics rushed to the scene. David thought his mom and sisters might be trapped inside. Hough said everyone got out ok thanks to Kayla.
I'm glad she said something because otherwise it might have been worse, Hough said. I don't know if we would have gotten out because the smoke was so thick.
Breona doesn't know what happened to all her Christmas presents, but she said, I feel happy because everybody's ok.
But for Hough it's a tough road ahead. I just feel bad for them. They don't really understand what's going on right now, she said.
A dog in the other apartment died in the fire. On the first floor of the building was a business called Art's Used Furniture. Fire officials say the entire building will need major renovations before it's ever used again.
Fire officials said no matter how small a fire is you should call 911 immediately and get out of the house.
A Rochester family escaped their burning apartment, and the mother said they're alive because of her four-year-old daughter.
I grabbed the girls and we started running down the hallway and it was like it was coming. It was coming right at us, mother Kristy Hough said.
Dark smoke could be seen miles away from the Dewey Avenue building. A family of four lost everything in the fire that was started by a candle.
I was in the kitchen on the phone and my daughter said, Mommy there's a fire, Hough said.
Kristy Hough's four-year-old daughter Kayla was wrapped in a blanket on the couch in the living room. A candle was sitting on the end table. She saw the fire first and told her mom.
Hough said she tried to put it out herself as she called 911. However, fire officials say a store owner on the first floor was the one who called 911.
I was filling up my coffee pot. I dumped it on there three times before I got out. It seemed like it made it worse if anything, Hough said.
Six-year-old Breona was playing in her room when she came out she saw the smoke. I just see it in the hallway coming, she said.
What started as a small fire turned into a mass of flames and smoke.
I turned around and it was just up the wall and over the ceiling, the windows were busting. The smoke was everywhere, Hough said.
Hough and her two girls ran out of the house. Her son, David, was down the street playing football. He didn't know that we were ok because he didn't see us outside, Hough said.
Paramedics rushed to the scene. David thought his mom and sisters might be trapped inside. Hough said everyone got out ok thanks to Kayla.
I'm glad she said something because otherwise it might have been worse, Hough said. I don't know if we would have gotten out because the smoke was so thick.
Breona doesn't know what happened to all her Christmas presents, but she said, I feel happy because everybody's ok.
But for Hough it's a tough road ahead. I just feel bad for them. They don't really understand what's going on right now, she said.
A dog in the other apartment died in the fire. On the first floor of the building was a business called Art's Used Furniture. Fire officials say the entire building will need major renovations before it's ever used again.
Fire officials said no matter how small a fire is you should call 911 immediately and get out of the house.
