Two Boys Save Children From Burning Home

John 15:13 NCV The greatest love a person can show is to die for his friends.

Two young boys in Orange County, Florida are being hailed as heroes after running into a burning mobile home to save the lives of two other children.

Isiah Francis, 10, called 911 when he saw the fire.  He then ran into the home with his friend, 11-year-old Jeremiah Grimes saw his friend rushing into the building and joined him.  The two saved two young children who had been trapped by the flames.

Firefighters then arrived and rescued two other children.

“I was in the place first trying to get those little kids out to save their lives,” Francis said. “I was nervous because there was so much smoke. It was hard for me to see and all that.”

Isiah said that Jeremiah stood at the door and directed him through the heavy smoke until they found the youngest children.

“I took the infant, he took the older one and we ran back to his house,” Grimes said.

“Although we never advise entering a building on fire,” said Fire Chief Otto Drozd III, “we must recognize the courage it took for those kids to risk their own lives to save the lives of others.”

The children rescued by firefighters are in critical but stable condition at Arnold Palmer Hospital.

The cause of the fire is still under investigation.

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