COLUMBUS, Ohio – A lesson learned at school helped to save the life of a nine-year-old boy and his mother when their Northeast Side house caught fire early Thursday morning, but it was not enough to save the boy’s grandmother, fire officials said.
The 52-year-old woman was rescued by firefighters from the rear of the burning home at 1803 E. Blake Avenue, where fire was reported just before 3:45 a.m., but she could not be revived and was pronounced dead at the scene, Division of Fire spokeswoman Battalion Chief Tracy Smith said.
When firefighters arrived at the scene, Smith says the front of single-story home was ablaze but the nine-year-old boy remembered what he had been taught in a fire division community outreach safety program at school, crawled underneath the smoke and alerted his 27-year-old mother and his grandmother, allowing all three to try to escape.
The house did not have any working smoke detectors, Smith said.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation