8-Year-Old Boy Saves Six Family Members From Fire But Dies Trying To Save A Seventh
Michelle Broder Van Dyke
Tyler Doohan, an 8-year-old Penfield, N.Y., boy, was killed Monday after helping save six family members from an early morning fire in a relative’s mobile home.
The fire began at 4:45 a.m. while the single-wide trailer’s nine occupants slept, firefighters in the Rochester suburb said. As the blaze began to engulf the trailer, Tyler alerted six family members, all of whom escaped alive. The boy died when he tried to save his uncle, Steven Smith, who required crutches after losing a leg.
His grandfather, Louis Beach, was also killed in the fire. It was not clear if the trailer had a fire alarm or smoke detector.
The survivors of the fire included Tyler’s grandmother, aunt, and cousins, two of whom are children ages 4 and 6.
Tyler did not live in the trailer, but had asked his mom for permission to spend the night at his grandfather’s because he didn’t have school on Monday due to the holiday.
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The world is much the worse without him in it.
