The toddler just learned to speak and saved his sleeping family with one word: “Fire!”
Aiden may be only 3 years old, but he is old enough to know that there has been a problem at his family’s home recently.
The smell of smoke came out of the air when the toddler woke up in his grandparents’ room on Wednesday. His grandparents have already gone to work and his parents sleep in another room.
“He must have noticed something is wrong,” said Aiden’s grandfather, Abel Sanchez, 57.
The child walked to his parents’ room and began to pull his mother’s blanket. Sanchez said she did not wake up immediately. He kept pulling the blanket to get her attention and wouldn’t stop.
His grandfather said Aiden was learning more words every day. Sanchez lives with his family in El Sereno, Los Angeles, and follows the street from a fire station on Northeast Avenue. His grandson often saw Firetrucks passing through the street with a hoarse sirens.
House on Northeast Street in Los Angele. Firefighters said a child’s quick thinking led his family to flee their home when they caught fire on Wednesday in El Sereno. The crew said a toddler living in a family “smelled something interesting”, which allowed everyone to catch up from home in the flames.
(Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)
So on Wednesday morning, when the house was filled with smoke, the boy shouted one of the few words he knew: “Fire! Fire!”
It was a problem that awakened his parents and his 4-month-old little sister. Sanchez said the family fled when the smoke gushed out of the home.
“By then, the house was already black,” Sanchez said. “The fire must have started when he woke up and woke up his mom.”
According to the Los Angeles Fire Department, the cause of the fire is under investigation, and firefighters were able to put out the fire in 19 minutes.
Although the family was unable to stay at home due to the smoke caused by the smoke, Sanchez saved his grandson and attributed his grandson to his grandson.
“He is our family hero,” Sanchez said.
