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Mayor Gives Kid Free House For Saving Family from Fire
For many families, it’s a nightmare situation – a fire in their home, their kids in danger. For one Chicago-area family, there’s a silver lining.
Eleven-year-old Adonis Bell was hailed in the Chicago Sun Times as a hero for saving six of his family members from a fire that tore through their house. When the mayor of Riverdale, Ill. saw the story, he decided he’d give the family a house.
Free.
The Sun-Times shared the story of the once down and out family’s happy ending this week – after all, it’s because of their story that Mayor Deyon Dean got the idea.
But none of it would have happened without the eleven-year-old Bell, who not only woke his mom to tell her to get out and alert other family members but literally carried his godsister from the flames . . . then went back into the house to make sure his aunt got out. That’s the part that gave me goosebumps – an eleven-year-old who knew he was safe outside was brave enough to go back IN to a burning building.
After writing a story for our local paper about a man in serious condition in the local trauma center after going back into his home to try to rescue a dog, what can happen to a civilian entering a burning building is high on my mind at the moment. Instead, Bell’s is a happy story – even happier now thanks to Dean.
And who couldn’t use a happy story today?
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Jessi commented on Aug 26 09 at 11:48 amThis truely is a miracle.. i’m so glad it had a happy ending…this boy is a hero….
Mistress_Scorpio commented on Aug 26 09 at 12:09 pmThat kid is full of WIN. Great story!
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