12-year-old Ramir Parker was at home with his grandmother and younger brothers when he discovered a fire in the
downstairs of the property
Fire crews responded to reports of a “structure fire with visible flames and heavy smoke” at their home in Petersburg, Virginia, at around 8:51 a.m. on Tuesday, June 3
Ramir grabbed his younger brothers and helped lead everyone out of the house. The Petersburg Fire Rescue & Emergency Services said his “selfless” actions were “nothing short of heroic”
A 12-year-old boy in Virginia became a hero after he saved his grandmother and two younger brothers from a burning home on Tuesday.
Fire crews responded to reports of a “structure fire with visible flames and heavy smoke” in Petersburg at around 8:51 a.m. on June 3, according to The Progress-Index, a local Virginia outlet.
Once they arrived, all occupants were safely out of the home, the title reported. And the person behind their rescue was 12-year-old Ramir Parker.
According to a Facebook post from Petersburg Fire Rescue & Emergency Services, instead of panicking or running away when confronted with the fire, Ramir “acted” as soon as he caught wind of the devastation ahead.
The pre-teen was in the upstairs of the home talking with his grandmother when he is said to have heard “a strange crackling and rattling sound, growing louder by the second,” as reported by The Progress-Index.
He initially thought his younger brothers, just one and two years old, had woken up from their nap in the downstairs living room.
“My mother-in-law [Ramir’s Grandmother] told me that my son [said] he smelled fire and they went downstairs [thinking] it was his little brothers playing, but it wasn’t,” Andrea Parker, Ramir’s mother, told WTVR-TV.
