A 5-year-old girl from Monroe, Washington, managed to escape danger by hiding in a toy trunk when her house caught on fire.
Firefighters with Snohomish County Fire District 7 responded to a call about a house fire on Sunday.Seattle Times Monroe police officers arrived before firefighters. A man who lived in the house was able to get himself, his older child, and the family dog out of the home. He told police that his younger child was still inside on the upper level but he didn't know where.They did manage to stop the blaze from growing, however.
“She wasn’t making sounds,” Heather Chadwick, an information officer for the fire district, told the newspaper. “He opened it up and saw her. She was laying in the toy chest just balled up.”Incredibly, she was unharmed. Medics even decided that she didn't need to go to the hospital, and none of the emergency personnel were injured in her rescue.
A statement from the fire station praised the police officers and their actions."Due to the quick thinking of the police officers by closing the bedroom door, firefighters were able to contain the fire to the bedroom and extinguish the flames,"
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