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911 call details moments 7-year-old boy saves Delaware family: Can you please come WPVI
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A newly released 911 call details the moment a heroic boy jumped into action to save his family as his grandfather s home went up in flames in Delaware.
The fire broke out last Thursday on the 200 block of Rice Drive in Bear.
Yanique Rainford Jr., 7, was in the house with his 2-year-old cousin Liam Rainford and his 92-year-old great-grandmother Rosamond Rainford. And then I came downstairs to get water and then I saw a fire, Yanique told Action News.
Yanique says he ran upstairs to get his baby cousin out of the house and ran back in for his great-grandmother.
Yanique then did a remarkable thing for a 7-year-old. He picked up the phone and called 911. Um, can you please come help me - there s a fire, Yanique can be heard saying. What s the address? asked the dispatcher. It s Rice Drive, said Yanique. It just started firing. I ran down to my grandma. What s on fire? asked the dispatcher. It s the whole house. Can you please come? said Yanique.
Firefighters arrived just in time to pull the great-grandmother out of the house who had fallen unconscious near the door. She was taken to Jefferson University Hospital for treatment.
Authorities deemed the fire which started on the back porch accidental, saying it was caused by a malfunction of a pellet stove in the rear of the home.
BEAR, Delaware (WPVI) A young boy is being credited with saving his family after a home went up in flames due to a pellet stove malfunction in Delaware on Thursday. I was upstairs with my baby cousin, said 7-year-old Yanique Rainford Jr. recalling the scary moments after a fire broke out inside his grandfather s home on the 200 block of Rice Drive in Bear.
Yanique was in the house with his 2-year-old cousin Liam Rainford and his 92-year-old great-grandmother Rosamond Rainford. And then I came downstairs to get water and then I saw a fire, Yanique said.
Yanique says he ran upstairs to get his baby cousin out of the house and ran back in for his great-grandmother.
ELKTON â Folks were rolling up their sleeves â or trying to â in order to get vaccinated against COVID-19 Wednesday.
âItâs hard sometimes,â said Tiffany Hodgdon, director of nursing at Elkton Nursing & Rehabilitation Center. With the winter weather and people wearing long sleeves or layers Hodgdon said some of her patients had to practically undress so she could swab an arm with alcohol and administer the Moderna vaccine.
But no one was complaining. In fact, it was a party at the facility on Price Drive, with prizes offered to staff after receiving the coveted vaccine.
âToday is an important and giant step toward normalcy,â said Joe DeMattus, president and CEO of the Health Facilities Association of Maryland. âThe first step in getting families back together is the vaccine.â